Objetivo: Encontrar predictores de decanulación en pacientes traqueostomizados y
desvinculados de la asistencia ventilatoria mecánica. Analizar la mortalidad en el centro de …

Introducción: Los pacientes con EPOC experimentan episodios de falla respiratoria que
requieren de asistencia ventilatoria mecánica (AVM). Debido al compromiso pulmonar, …

BACKGROUND: Prolonged mechanical ventilation is increasingly common in ICUs. Although
a consensus conference defined weaning success in this patient population, few studies …

Objetivos: describir una muestra de pacientes traqueostomizados con requerimiento de
ventilación mecánica prolongada que ingresaron a un centro de desvinculación, analizar su …

In old animals a marked reduction in endothelium-dependent relaxation occurs. Since there
is evidence that the endothelial dysfunction associated with aging may be partly related to …

Objectives The effectiveness of the active humidification systems (AHS) in patients already
weaned from mechanical ventilation and with an artificial airway has not been very well …

Background: Most of the studies referring cuff tubes’ issues were conducted on intubated
patients. Not much is known about the cuff pressure performance in chronically …

Objective: To describe and compare the work of breathing (WOB) during spontaneous breathing
under four conditions:(1) breathing through a tracheostomy tube with an inflated cuff,(2) …

Background: Our objective was to describe the prevalence and characteristics of tracheal
lesions observed in flexile bronchoscopies of tracheostomized patients, and to determine …

Objective To assess whether laryngotracheal lesions were more prevalent among tracheostomized
post- coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) adult patients compared with a matched …