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Weaning Criteria: Physiologic Indices in Different Groups of Patients

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Mechanical Ventilation and Weaning

Part of the book series: Update in Intensive Care Medicine ((UICMSOFT,volume 36))

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Abstract

Intubation and mechanical ventilation are commonly employed to save the lives of critically ill patients with respiratory failure. However, selection of the most appropriate time for liberation (from the machine) and endotracheal extubation are among the most difficult decisions critical care physicians make. Roughly two thirds of patients can be successfully extubated after a brief period of breathing through a T-tube, once the problems which precipitated respiratory failure have been treated. However, about 30% of patients who require intubation and mechanical ventilation for longer than 24 h cannot tolerate initial attempts to breathe without the mechanical ventilator [1, 2].

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  1. Servei de Medicina Intensiva, Hospital de la Sante Creu i Sant Pau, Av. S.A. Maria Claret 167, 08025, Barcelona, Spain

    Jordi Mancebo MD (Associate Professor of Medicine) & Alvar Net MD (Professor of Medicine) (Associate Professor of Medicine) &  (Professor of Medicine)

  2. Service Réanimation Médicale, Hôpital Henri Mondor, 51, Av. Du Mal de Lattre de Tassigny, F-94010, Créteil cedex, France

    Laurent Brochard MD (Professor of Medicine) (Professor of Medicine)

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Vallverdú, I., Mancebo, J. (2003). Weaning Criteria: Physiologic Indices in Different Groups of Patients. In: Mancebo, J., Net, A., Brochard, L. (eds) Mechanical Ventilation and Weaning. Update in Intensive Care Medicine, vol 36. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56112-2_14

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