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Weaning from mechanical ventilation

Case-based session
Chairs: M. Tobin (Hines, United States of America)
Aims: To learn definitions and outcomes; to understand reasons for weaning failure and how to treat these factors.

Case presentation: An old known and rarely seen etiology of respiratory failure R. Estêvão Gomes (Lisboa, Portugal)
Case presentation: Extracorporeal CO2 removal and veno venous ECMO as bridge to transplantation in refractory hypercapnic respiratory failure G. Glodic (Zagreb, Croatia)
Definition and outcome L. Brochard (Toronto (ON), Canada)
Why can't my patient be weaned? M. Dres (Paris, France)
How to ventilate difficult to wean patients C. Gregoretti (Palermo, Italy)
Early mobilisation and IMT S. Mehta (Toronto, Canada)
Swallowing and talking in difficult to wean patients N. Hart (London, United Kingdom)