The European respiratory journal : official journal of the European Society for Clinical Respiratory Physiology
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Multicenter Study Clinical Trial
Incidence and outcome of weaning from mechanical ventilation according to new categories.
Weaning from mechanical ventilation was categorised as simple, difficult or prolonged by an international task force of the American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society/European Society of Intensive Care Medicine/Society of Critical Care Medicine/Sociéte de Réanimation de Langue Française in 2007. This new classification has not been tested in clinical practice. The objective of the present study was to determine the incidence and outcome of weaning according to the new categories. ⋯ Ventilator-free days and intensive care unit (ICU)-free days were decreased in both difficult and prolonged weaning. In conclusion, the new weaning category prolonged weaning is associated with increased mortality and morbidity in the ICU. The new category difficult to wean was associated with increased morbidity, but not mortality.
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Letter Multicenter Study
Culture result of smear-positive sputum samples after 2 months of antituberculous treatment.