
Lucas Montano Paternostro Saback, Gustavo Fernandes Vieira, Marcelo Dourado Costa,
Weaning patients from mechanical ventilation is a challenge in the intensive care unit (ICU) practice and is related to some complications. One of these is the pos-extubation laryngospasm, an event that can be anticipated for the cuff leak test (CLT). The objective was demonstrate that the CLT is a simple, reliable and low costs method to available the presence of obstruction in high airway in patients under weaning ventilator.It was made a systematic review in databases MedLine, SciElo and LILACS ...
Tópico(s): Tracheal and airway disorders
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