Hypercapnic Ventilatory Response in the Weaning of Patients with Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation.

Chung-Shu LeeNing-Hung ChenLi-Pang Chuang Chih-Hao ChangLi-Fu LiShih-Wei LinHsiung-Ying Huang

Published in: Canadian respiratory journal (2017)

PMV subjects who failed weaning had a lower hypercapnic ventilatory response than successfully weaned subjects. However, the prediction capacity of this test, assessed by the area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve, poorly predicted weaning outcome.

Keyphrases

mechanical ventilation
respiratory failure
acute respiratory distress syndrome
intensive care unit
extracorporeal membrane oxygenation