Abstract
Patients who repeatedly fail attempts at weaning from mechanical ventilation account for a disproportionate amount of health care costs, and they pose enormous clinical, economic and ethical problems [1]. Weaning attempts that are repeatedly unsuccessful usually indicate incomplete resolution of the illness that precipitated the need for mechanical ventilation or the development of new problems. Every attempt should be made to identify the specific cause of ventilator dependency (Table 1), and all correctable factors should be corrected [2]. Commonly, more than one factor is responsible for weaning failure, and these may be difficult to separate.
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Tobin, M.J., Jubran, A. (1992). Difficult Weaning. In: Vincent, JL. (eds) Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 1992. Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, vol 1992. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84734-9_38
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