Open AccessSedation and weaning from mechanical ventilation: time for ‘best practice’ to catch up with new realities?
Author(s) -
Giorgio Conti,
Jean Mantz,
Dan Longrois,
Peter H. Tonner
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
multidisciplinary respiratory medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.72
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 2049-6958
pISSN - 1828-695X
DOI - 10.4081/mrm.2014.380
Subject(s) - mechanical ventilation , sedation , weaning , anticipation (artificial intelligence) , medicine , anesthesia , pain medicine , intensive care medicine , ventilator weaning , ventilation (architecture) , anesthesiology , psychology , engineering , computer science , artificial intelligence , mechanical engineering
Delivery of sedation in anticipation of weaning of adult patients from prolonged mechanical ventilation is an arena of critical care medicine where opinion-based practice is currently hard to avoid because robust evidence is lacking. We offer some views on this subject, hoping to stimulate debate among colleagues.