1. Noninvasive ventilation as a weaning-facilitating strategy
- Author
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A Jareño Chaumel, T Rico Armenteros, L Fernández Ruiz, P Guijo González, M Recuerda, A Ramos Rodríguez, M Jaen Franco, and JM Estella
- Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,Critically ill ,Pulmonary disease ,Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine ,Cardiac dysfunction ,Respiratory failure ,Poster Presentation ,Weaning failure ,Weaning ,Medicine ,Noninvasive ventilation ,business ,Intensive care medicine - Abstract
Extubation of critically ill patients with cardiac dysfunction and/or hypercapnic chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are probably one of the most common causes of weaning failure. Both extubation delay and especially the need for reintubation are associated with poor outcomes and an increase in morbidity.
- Published
- 2015