Weaning patients from mechanical ventilation constitutes a major portion of the workload in an intensive care unit, as over 40% of total ventilator time is consumed by the weaning process.

The following is a summary of “A Study on the Diagnostic Accuracy of Tidal Volume-Diaphragmatic Contraction Velocity: A Novel Index for Weaning Outcome Prediction,” published in the April 2025 issue ...

Up to 20% of patients requiring mechanical ventilation will suffer from difficult weaning (the need of more than 7 days of weaning after the first spontaneous breathing trial), which may depend on ...