Journal of critical care
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Journal of critical care · Oct 2024
The ratio of parasternal intercostal muscle-thickening fraction-to-diaphragm thickening fraction for predicting weaning failure.
Diaphragm dysfunction is associated with weaning outcomes in mechanical ventilation patients, in the case of diaphragm dysfunction, the accessory respiratory muscles would be recruited. The main purpose of this study is to explore the performance of parasternal intercostal muscle thickening fraction in relation to diaphragmatic thickening fraction ratio (TFic1/TFdi2) for predicting weaning outcomes, and compare its accuracy with D-RSBI in predicting weaning failure. ⋯ The TFic/TFdi ratio predicted weaning failure with high accuracy and outperformed the D-RSBI.