Cough augmentation techniques for extubation or weaning critically ill patients from mechanical ventilation.

CONCLUSIONS: The overall quality of evidence on the efficacy of cough augmentation techniques for critically-ill people is very low. Cough augmentation techniques when used in mechanically-ventilated critically-ill people appear to result in few adverse events.
PMID: 28075489 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - January 10, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Rose L, Adhikari NK, Leasa D, Fergusson DA, McKim D Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research