Weaning fallure in artificially ventilated chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients

Ahmed Abd El-Raheem Kamel;

Abstract


This study was conducted on (50) COPD patients who developed weaning failure after being attached to ventilator in respiratory intensive care unit.



* Also (10) patients who develepd successful weaning were taken as (control group) . The aim of the work -was to study the causes of
weaning failure in mechanically ventilated COPD patients .



* After making several investegations including ABGs, lung mechanics monitoring and others, our study revealed that the

cause& of weaning failure were , respiratory muscle weakness ,
repeated accumulation of secretions , intractable bronchospasm. sudden cardiac arrest , respiratory center depression , hepa'torena.l failure , ventilator associated pneumonia , cerebrovascular stroke ,

iatrogenic pneumothorax & pneumomediastinum and lastly psychological disturbance due to ventilator dependance.


Other data

Title Weaning fallure in artificially ventilated chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients
Other Titles فشل الفطام من التنفس الصناعى عند مرضى السدة الرئوية المزمنة
Authors Ahmed Abd El-Raheem Kamel
Keywords .COPD - Mechanjcal ventilation- weaning failure . Acute respiratory failure - Modes•of ventilation
Issue Date 2001

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