A Cluster Randomized Trial to Improve Weaning and Extubation From Mechanical Ventilation in Community Hospitals

Exclusion Criteria

• •patients less than 16 years of age patients who receive only non-invasive ventilation patients chronically ventilated at time of ICU admission patients who will not be candidates for weaning from ventilation at time of admission If withdrawl of life support is imminent at the point the patient has been ventilated for 24 hours