Mechanical Ventilation and Weaning

1 Mechanical Ventilation in Acute Respiratory Failure: What We Have Learnt and What We Still Need to Learn

2 Controlled Mechanical Ventilation

3 Proportional Assist Ventilation

4 Influence of Ventilator Performance on Assisted Modes of Ventilation

5 Application of Tracheal Gas Insufflation for Critical Care Patients

6 What a Clinician Should Do When a Patient "Fights the Ventilator"

7 Critical Illness Polyneuropathy and Critical Illness Myopathy

8 Factors Associated with Mortality in Mechanically Ventilated Patients

9 Pathophysiology of Weaning-Associated Respiratory Failure

10 Rapid Shallow Breathing: Causes and Consequences

11 Cardiopulmonary Interactions and Gas Exchange During Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation

12 Weaning-Induced Cardiac Failure

13 Physiopathological Determinants of Patient-Ventilator Interaction and Dyssynchrony During Weaning

14 Weaning Criteria: Physiologic Indices in Different Groups of Patients

15 How Should We Interpret Weaning-Predictive Indices?

16 Timing and Criteria for Beginning Weaning

17 The Importance of Clinical Algorithms to Facilitate Weaning and Extubation

18 Strategies for Implementation of Weaning Algorithms in the Clinical Arena

19 The Role of Muscle Training and Rehabilitation During Weaning

20 The Role of Noninvasive Mechanical Ventilation in Facilitating Weaning and Extubation

21 Expanding Horizons of Noninvasive Ventilation

22 Unplanned Extubation

23 Extubation Failure: Can It Be Prevented or Predicted?

24 Continuous Positive Airway Pressure in the Hypoxemic Patient

25 Closed-Loop Systems for Mechanical Ventilation

26 Tracheostomy in the ICU: Why, When and How?