Caring for the mechanically ventilated patient: part two.
This is tile second of two articles on caring for the mechanically ventilated patient. It focuses on the process of weaning patients from mechanical ventilators The first part, on caring for tile mechanically ventilated patient, was published in last week's Nursing Standard.
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Intensive Therapy Unit, The Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool. christine.newmarch@rlbuht.nhs.uk
D045422:Continuous Positive Airway Pressure; D006801:Humans; D007385:Intermittent Positive-Pressure Ventilation; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal; D012121:Respiration, Artificial / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D014139:Tracheostomy / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology; D015300:Ventilator Weaning