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CHEST
Volume 120, Issue 6, Pages 482S-484SPublisher
AMER COLL CHEST PHYSICIANS
DOI: 10.1378/chest.120.6_suppl.482S
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chronically critically ill; post-ICU; prolonged mechanical ventilation; weaning
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A review of the largest observational studies on post-ICU weaning from prolonged mechanical ventilation yields evidence that more than half of such patients can be successfully liberated from mechanical ventilation. Success is likely to fall within a 3-month window, with late successes and partial ventilator independence still possible thereafter. There is a uniformity of practice in finishing difficult weaning with self-breathing trials of increasing duration.
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