Revista Brasileira de terapia intensiva
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Rev Bras Ter Intensiva · Mar 2008
[The use of the cuff leak test as a factor to predict laryngospasm].
Weaning patients from mechanical ventilation is a challenge in the intensive care unit (ICU) practice and is related to some complications. One of these is the pos-extubation laryngospasm, an event that can be anticipated for the cuff leak test (CLT). The objective was demonstrate that the CLT is a simple, reliable and low costs method to available the presence of obstruction in high airway in patients under weaning ventilator. ⋯ The CLT can be considerate a good index to predict laryngospasm pos-extubation, when considerate the studied population characteristics.