… in 44 consecutive patients, treated in our tertiary referral center, affected by severe COVID-19 …
The role of tracheotomy, timing of weaning from the ventilator, and decannulation are …

… reasons amongst our 35 decannulated patients and only a small number of patients (3/41, …
of decannulated patients (25/35, 71.4%) did not require downsizing prior to decannulation. …

… Clearly, even ventilator unweanable patients with healthy lungs can be decannulated to …
for possible decannulation of an apparently unweanable patient and his decannulation when …

… the subset of patients with COVID-19 who would most benefit from tracheotomy. … patients
with COVID-19. Specifically, we aimed to explore rates of ventilator weaning and decannulation…

… remaining on ECMO (red), the total number of decannulated patients (green), the total …
life-saving capability of ECMO support in appropriately selected patients with severe COVID-19. …

… for severe brain-damaged patients and adapted to COVID-19 patients could be applied
to different populations in order to achieve the best practice in the decannulation process. …

… We describe a protocolized global approach to this patient population, which we call the five
Ds strategy. This article describes its application to fifty very frail COVID-19 survivors, first in …

… control demands of patients with COVID-19 might not allow this to happen. … with COVID-19
severe ARDS patients who have been successfully liberated from MV before decannulation …

… Patients with severe COVID-19 who were on mechanical ventilation for 5 days or longer
were … are followed by speech pathology and otolaryngology for final decannulation and …

… better timing of ECMO decannulation in the COVID-19 group. … death after decannulation in
patients with COVID-19 placed … % survival after decannulation of 13 patients with COVID-19. …