The combination of the load/force balance and the frequency/tidal volume can predict weaning outcome

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 684-691

  Vassilakopoulos, Theodores ^a   Routsi, Christina ^a   Sotiropoulou, Christina ^a   Bitsakou, Charis ^a   Stanopoulos, Ioannis ^a   Roussos, Charis ^a   Zakynthinos, Spyros ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Mechanical ventilation; Muscle endurance; Ventilator weaning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY PRESSURE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BREATHING MUSCLE; ENDURANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIDAL VOLUME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY MUSCLES; TIDAL VOLUME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTILATOR WEANING;

EID: 33646406051     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-006-0104-y     Document Type: Article

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