SAN FRANCISCO -- Stopping enteral nutrition hours before an attempt at extubation didn't reduce risk of failure of extubation, a randomized trial showed. Continued enteral nutrition until extubation ...

Forty percent of children passing at the 30-minute mark of a spontaneous breathing trial to assess extubation readiness failed in the remainder of the trial, according to a study published in CHEST.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . ICU patients spent less time in the ICU following adoption of twice-daily extubation readiness assessments. A ...

There is no standard method of weaning. Indeed, there is disagreement about when the onset of weaning actually occurs and no validated, objective criteria as to when a patient can be extubated. For ...

Readiness for extubation implies that weaning is completed, the patient is sufficiently awake with intact airway reflexes, is hemodynamically stable, and has manageable secretions. Extubation failure ...