Intensive care medicine
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Intensive care medicine · Feb 2024
Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter StudyEffect of aggressive vs conservative screening and confirmatory test on time to extubation among patients at low or intermediate risk: a randomized clinical trial.
This study aimed to determine the best strategy to achieve fast and safe extubation. ⋯ Among patients at low or intermediate risk for extubation failure with planned HFNC, combining aggressive screening with preventive PEEP and a conservative SBT reduced the time to extubation without increasing the reintubation rate.