When patients depend on ventilators for a long period of time, it will increase the risk complexity and death. Thus, medical professionals try to help wean off from ventilator as soon possible minimize adverse effects respiratory machine. This study analyzed historical clinical data evaluate improve weaning protocol in operation. adopted retrospective approach by collecting 1,014 cases Taiwan 2...

BACKGROUND Long-term outcome and quality of life (QOL) in patients requiring prolonged mechanical ventilation after failure to wean in the ICU is scarcely documented. We aimed to evaluate long-term survival and QOL in patients discharged from the ICU with a tracheostomy for difficult weaning, and with or without ventilator dependency at ICU discharge. METHODS We retrospectively investigated p...

BACKGROUND No previous study exists to evaluate serum phosphorus (Ph) level as a predictor of the need to mechanical ventilation (MV). This study was designed to determine the predictive ability of admission serum Ph level on MV in patients admitted in Intensive Care Unit (ICU). MATERIALS AND METHODS This prospective study was conducted on 100 patients (>16 years old), admitted to our ICU ove...

BACKGROUND Mechanical ventilation is a life-saving intervention for critically ill newborn infants with respiratory failure admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Ventilating newborn infants can be challenging due to small tidal volumes, high breathing frequencies, and the use of uncuffed endotracheal tubes. Mechanical ventilation has several short-term, as well as long-term complic...

BACKGROUND While inspiratory muscle weakness is common in prolonged mechanical ventilation, inspiratory muscle strength training (IMST) can facilitate strengthening and ventilator weaning. However, the inspiratory load compensation (ILC) responses to threshold loads are not well characterized in patients. We retrospectively compared ILC responses according to the clinical outcomes of IMST (ie, ...

BACKGROUND The power of the randomised controlled trial depends upon its capacity to operate in a closed system whereby the intervention is the only causal force acting upon the experimental group and absent in the control group, permitting a valid assessment of intervention efficacy. Conversely, clinical arenas are open systems where factors relating to context, resources, interpretation and a...

Abstract Background The bacterial density of Pseudomonas aeruginosa is closely related to its pathogenicity. We evaluated the effect airway P. on clinical course mechanically ventilated patients and therapeutic efficacy antibiotics. Methods retrospectively analyzed data ICU with isolated from endotracheal aspirates. Patients were divided into three groups according peak during stay: low (? 10 4...