How to Evaluate a Spontaneous Breathing Trial

Kipnik: It's a great non-invasive way to evaluate their ability to ventilate. Oftentimes in little babies are entitled CO2 detector has a lot of dead space. So sometimes that'll get taken off and they'll use a TCM or a transcutaneous monitor instead, but following that as well. And I feel like that can really give us a lot of good data about if we see that number climbing, maybe we're not ventilating appropriately. Kipnik: In patients who are very weak and have been intubated and sedated for a very long period of time, I might use these breathing trials as more of sprints, so

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