Sedation and weaning from mechanical ventilation: time for ‘best practice’ to catch up with new realities?

By G. Conti, J. Mantz, D. Longrois, P. Tonner. 2014

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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.

Subfields: Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Radiological and Ultrasound Technology