Pressure-support ventilation or T-piece spontaneous breathing trials for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - A randomized controlled trial.

BACKGROUND:Little is known about the best strategy for weaning patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) from mechanical ventilation. Spontaneous breathing trials (SBT) using a T-piece or pressure-support ventilation (PSV) have a central role in this process. Our aim was to compare...

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Main Authors: José Augusto Santos Pellegrini, Márcio Manozzo Boniatti, Viviane Corrêa Boniatti, Crislene Zigiotto, Marina Verçoza Viana, Wagner Luiz Nedel, Leonardo da Silva Marques, Moreno Calcagnotto Dos Santos, Clarissa Balbão de Almeida, Cláudia Pellizzer Dal' Pizzol, Patrícia Klarmann Ziegelmann, Sílvia Regina Rios Vieira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6107186?pdf=render