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Monitoring Plans and Weaning Protocols for Critically Ill Patients

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Respiratory monitoring is essential during both noninvasive ventilation (NIV) and invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) of critically ill patients. While patients are treated, ventilator requirements get changed. Therefore, ventilator settings must be reviewed through close monitoring of clinical parameters and ventilator parameters of the patients to meet their new criteria and prevent ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI). While on NIV, more parameters must be monitored to early predict NIV failure for the decision of intubation or assess weanability as soon as possible. Moreover, some technical issues must be applied to optimize ventilation settings before considering NIV failure. Once patient clinical parameters/lung functions get normalized, a weaning plan could be started safely. The purpose of this chapter is to review the respiratory monitoring plans, methods for optimizing ventilator settings, and possible weaning plans for critically ill patients.

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Abdelrahim, M.E.A., Saeed, H., Harb, H.S., Madney, Y.M. (2021). Monitoring Plans and Weaning Protocols for Critically Ill Patients. In: Essentials of Aerosol Therapy in Critically ill Patients. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85026-5_12

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