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Weaning, Tracheostomy, and Chest Physiotherapy

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Weaning is gradual reduction of ventilation. A new systematic review suggests that noninvasive ventilation after early extubation helps in reducing the total days spent on invasive mechanical ventilation; also the patients spending less time on invasive ventilation had lower rates of ventilator-associated pneumonia [1, 2]. In some cases this process is rapid and uneventful; however, for some patients the process may be prolonged for days or weeks. Weaning is a term that is used in two separate ways. Firstly, it implies the termination of mechanical ventilation and secondly the removal of any artificial airway [1, 2].

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    Carmen Pascale, Giuseppe Servillo & Maria Vargas

  2. Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Unit of “Azienda Ospedaliera di Rilievo Nazionale dei Colli, Ospedale Monaldi”, Naples, Italy

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Pascale, C., Servillo, G., Russo, G., Vargas, M. (2022). Weaning, Tracheostomy, and Chest Physiotherapy. In: Battaglini, D., Pelosi, P. (eds) COVID-19 Critical and Intensive Care Medicine Essentials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94992-1_7

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