Ventilator Withdrawal

Ventilator withdrawal: Procedures and outcomes

Published in Cancer Weekly, December 2nd, 2003

Ventilator withdrawal: Procedures and outcomes. According to a study from the United States, "To describe an institutional procedure for ventilator withdrawal and to analyze patient responses to terminal extubation, the medical records of 21 patients who underwent withdrawal of mechanical ventilation according to the process followed by an interdisciplinary palliative care team were retrospectively reviewed.

"The cohort was a convenience sample of sequentially treated patients in a 1048-bed urban university-affiliated medical center. Sixteen of the 21 patients were on medical or surgical floors and 5 patients were in critical care units," wrote S. O'Mahony and...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2003-12-02)

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