Weaning From Mechanical Ventilation: What Should Be Done When a Patient's Spontaneous Breathing Trial Fails?

Laveena Munshi¹, Niall D Ferguson^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
² Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, Departments of Medicine and Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
³ Toronto General Research Institute, Division of Respirology, Department of Medicine, University Health Network, Mount Sinai Hospitals, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Editorial

Laveena Munshi et al. JAMA. 2018.

. 2018 Nov 13;320(18):1865-1867.

doi: 10.1001/jama.2018.13762.

Laveena Munshi¹, Niall D Ferguson^{2

3}

¹ Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
² Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, Departments of Medicine and Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
³ Toronto General Research Institute, Division of Respirology, Department of Medicine, University Health Network, Mount Sinai Hospitals, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Comment on

Effect of Protocolized Weaning With Early Extubation to Noninvasive Ventilation vs Invasive Weaning on Time to Liberation From Mechanical Ventilation Among Patients With Respiratory Failure: The Breathe Randomized Clinical Trial.
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