Extubation failure and the use of noninvasive ventilation during the weaning process in critically ill COVID-19 patients.
Viviane Martins Correa BoniattiChaiane Ribeiro PereiraGabriela Machado CostaMichelle Carneiro TeixeiraAlessandra Preisig WerlangFrancielle Thaisa Morais MartinsLeonardo da Silva MarquesWagner Luis NedelMárcio Manozzo BoniattiPublished in: Critical care science (2023)
We found that COVID-19 patients had a high rate of extubation failure. Despite the high risk of extubation failure, we observed low use of prophylactic noninvasive ventilation in these patients.