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Revista portuguesa de pneumologia
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Rev Port Pneumol (2006) · Sep 2015
Comparative Study Observational StudyDifferent spontaneous breathing trials in patients with atrial fibrillation.
Weaning from mechanical ventilation is one of the most important and challenging problems for most intensive care unit (ICU) patients. Spontaneous breathing trial (SBT) is the most common method used to evaluate patients' ability to breathe by themselves and plays an important role in decision making for weaning. The aim of our study was to investigate the effect of different methods of SBT in respiratory care unit (RCU) patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) on weaning outcome. ⋯ The use of PSV trial might be considered first instead of T-piece trial for SBT when AF patients were ready to wean.