Effect of Implementing Cough Augmentation Techniques on Weaning Outcomes Among Critically Ill Patients

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

• cough augmentation techniques

  Other intervention Other interventionAn intervention that does not fit one of the standard intervention types.

  the lung volume recruitment maneuver via MV was applied with assistant of the attended physician as follows: Use pressure-controlled ventilation and increase end-inspiratory volume (30 or 40 cm H2O for 30 to 40 seconds unless contraindicated) or inspiratory hold for 30 to 40 seconds to promote cough effectiveness. The patient serially inhales a volume of gas without exhalation until maximum insufflation capacity via the ventilator to facilitate breath-holding (if not contraindicated).

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