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PREDICTING EXTUBATION FAILURE [PDF]

Intensive Care Medicine Experimental, 2015
Predicting extubation failure in Intensive Care is vital to reduce mortality and lower costs due to increased length of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and hospital stay. We look at predictors of extubation failure in patients passing a spontaneous breathing trial.
Krivinskas, S, Sarkar, R, Turner, O, Goonetilleke, K, Anderson, P   +4 more
openaire   +1 more source

Extubation outside the usual chair position: is it possible? Case report

Journal of Mechanical Ventilation
Background The withdrawal of ventilatory support is usually carried out in bed; sometimes patients can be extubated outside the usual position as in chair in special cases; benefiting early mobilization which is associated with reducing hospital stay ...
Andrés M Enríquez-Popayán, Lorena García-Agudelo   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Weaning newborn infants from mechanical ventilation

Journal of Pediatric and Neonatal Individualized Medicine, 2013
Invasive mechanical ventilation is a life-saving procedure which is largely used in neonatal intensive care units, particularly in very premature newborn infants. However, this essential treatment may increase mortality and cause substantial morbidity,
Paolo Biban, Marcella Gaffuri, Stefania Spaggiari, Davide Silvagni, Federico Zaglia, Pierantonio Santuz   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pupillary pain index correlates with postoperative pain scores in neurosurgical patients [PDF]

, 2017
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Amorim, Pedro, Correia, Rui P., Leitão, A., Nunes, Catarina S., Rego, J., Soares, Maria, Vide, Sérgio   +6 more
core   +1 more source

High-Flow Nasal Oxygen Therapy in Preventing Post-Extubation Hypoxaemia and Postoperative Pulmonary Complications: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Diagnostics
Background: Post-extubation hypoxaemia and postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs) are common in surgical patients and contribute significantly to morbidity and prolonged recovery.
Jamie Wen Yen Tan, Azarinah Izaham, Raha Abd Rahman, Rufinah Teo, Syarifah Noor Nazihah Sayed Masri, Azrina Md Ralib, Kok-Yong Chin   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Comparison of classic laryngeal mask airway with Ambu laryngeal mask for tracheal tube exchange: A prospective randomized controlled study

Indian Journal of Anaesthesia, 2013
Background and Aim: Exchanging endotracheal tube (ETT) with classic laryngeal mask airway TM (CLMA TM ) prior to emergence from anaesthesia is a safe technique to prevent the coughing and haemodynamic changes during extubation.
Shruti Jain, Rashid M Khan, Syed M Ahmed, Manpreet Singh   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Enhanced Moisture-Focused, Nurse-Led Oral Care Improves Oral Health and Suppresses Bacterial Overgrowth in Mechanically Ventilated ICU Patients: A Quasi-Experimental Study. [PDF]

Nurs Crit Care
ABSTRACT Background In Japan, no standardised, evidence‐based oral care protocol independent of chlorhexidine (CHX) exists, despite its importance in preventing ventilator‐associated pneumonia (VAP) and post‐extubation dysphagia (PED) among mechanically ventilated patients.
Sato A, Sasaki Y, Imazu Y.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Surfactant function in neonates with respiratory distress syndrome [PDF]

, 1998
The function of pulmonary surfactant of a group of 14 preterm neonates (birth weight 907 +/- 60 g) who suffered from severe respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) and who had received exogenous bovine lipid extracted surfactant on the first day of life was ...
Griese, Matthias, Westerburg, Bettina
core   +1 more source

Awake tracheal extubation, can be anticipated? case reports

Saudi Journal of Anaesthesia
Perioperative airway management is a crucial task for anesthesiologists. Several perioperatively techniques make it difficult to predict the appropriate time for tracheal extubation.
Khalid Aljonaieh
doaj   +1 more source

Novel Respiratory Breath Hold Index: A Predictor for Successful Extubation in Mechanically Ventilated Patients, a Prospective Cohort Study

Life
Background: Liberation from mechanical ventilation is a major objective in critically ill patients. Various criteria for extubation are used with different success rates.
Arie Soroksky, Gingy Ronen Balmor, Riziny Nugzar, Adam Lee Goldstein, Emad Tayem, Ori Galante, Milena Tocut   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source