Clinical Challenges in Pediatric Ventilation Liberation: A Meta-Narrative Review

CONCLUSIONS: Current literature suggests using a structured approach that includes a daily assessment of patient’s readiness to extubate may reduce total ventilation time. Increasing evidence indicates that such daily assessments needs to include SBTs without added pressure support. Measures of elevated load as well as measures of impaired respiratory muscle capacity are independently associated with extubation failure in children, indicating that these should also be assessed as part of ERT.
Source: Pediatric Critical Care Medicine - Category: Pediatrics Tags: Feature Review Article Source Type: research