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Peri-extubation practices and extubation failure in a South African tertiary paediatric intensive care unit
Objectives To describe the peri-extubation practices in a South African paediatric intensive care unit and to determine the prevalence, risk factors and outcomes of extubation failure. Design Prospective observational study. Setting A multi-disciplinary paediatric intensive care unit in Cape Town, …
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Predictors of Extubation Success in Extremely Low Birth Weight (ELBW) Infants
Objective. To evaluate the value of pre-extubation blood gas parameters, ventilatory settings and nutritional status as predictors of extubation success in extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants. Methods. Secondary data analysis was performed on a prospective cohort of 161 ELBW infants enrolled …
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A European survey of Non- Invasive Ventilation (NIV)
… scenarios: Acute Hypercapnic Respiratory Failure (AHRF), Cardiogenic Pulmonary Edema (CPE), de novo hypoxic respiratory failure, Weaning/Post-extubation failure (W/PE). A response was obtained from 272/530 (51.3%) selected European physicians involved in NIV practice. NIV utilization rate …
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End Tidal Carbon Dioxide Monitoring in the Acute Post Extubation Period in the Pediatric Intensive Care Setting
<p>Extubation failures in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit setting can be prevented by use of End Tidal C02 monitoring during the acute post extubation period. The primary goal of this project is to increase the use of ETC02 NC over regular NC after extubating patients by 5% quarterly. The …