Minerva anestesiologica
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Minerva anestesiologica · Nov 1998
Clinical Trial[Factors determining the successful weaning of patients with "difficult weaning"].
Weaning from mechanical ventilation is often possible in the most of patients, even if sometimes it is very difficult. For example, 25-53% of COPD patients cannot be weaned. The different modalities used do not justify this. The aim of the study was the evaluation of a further weaning trial in tracheotomized patients who underwent mechanical ventilation for at least 15 days in several ICU and in whom several attempts of weaning failed. ⋯ The conclusion is drawn weaning from mechanical ventilation can be reached also in a part of those patients who are thought not weanable with a further, prolonged and expensive weaning trial.