Prediction of Extubation Success by the Patient

Ospedale Regionale Bellinzona e Valli

Status: Completed

Conditions: Respiratory Failure; Mechanical Ventilation; Extubation

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00448565

CEC-06-2807

Details and patient eligibility

About

The evidence-based approach to wean and consecutively extubate patients is based solely on objective criteria/tests. The introduction of subjective criteria could further improve the actual method.

Enrollment: 200 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• all intubated patients ready for a spontaneous breathing trial

Exclusion criteria

• not awake
• not collaborative