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Postoperative Mechanical Ventilation: Fast Track

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Mechanical ventilation (MV) is indicated for patients that are not able to sustain spontaneous breathing. Complications associated with prolonged MV, however, are numerous. Fortunately, a majority of surgical patients meet the criteria for extubation within the first 8 h postoperatively. As such, the plan to extubate should be established long before endotracheal tube placement as the benefits of avoiding prolonged MV have already been well established. The fast-track extubation pathway allows clinicians to offer high-value care via avoidance of complications and has proven itself as a valuable approach in appropriately selected patients.

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  1. Punta Pacific Hospital/Johns Hopkins Medicine, Panama City, Panama

    Jorge E. Sinclair Ávila

  2. Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Panama, Panama City, Panama

    Jorge E. Sinclair De Frías

  3. Department of Neurological Surgery, Complejo Hospitalario Dr. Arnulfo Arias Madrid, Caja de Seguro Social, Panama City, Panama

    Juan P. Herrera Berríos

  4. Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, USA

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  1. Critical Care Division Belize Healthcare Partners, Belize, Belize

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  2. Pulmonary and Critical Care, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Robert C Hyzy

  3. Critical Care Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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  4. Critical Care, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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Sinclair Ávila, J.E., Sinclair De Frías, J.E., Herrera Berríos, J.P., Hidalgo, A. (2022). Postoperative Mechanical Ventilation: Fast Track. In: Hidalgo, J., Hyzy, R.C., Mohamed Reda Taha, A., Tolba, Y.Y.A. (eds) Personalized Mechanical Ventilation . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14138-6_10

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