Universidade de Oeste de Santa Catarina

Patients on mechanical ventilation (MV) must undergo weaning, an interruption of ventilatory support. Several scores have been developed to predict this outcome, but the failure index in weaning and extubation remains high. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of ExPreS - Extubation Predictive Score - on the rate of successful extubation. This research will be conducted in a randomized clinical trial in ICUs of several hospitals. It is expected that there will be a difference between devices for predicting extubation success, and because ExPreS is a protocol that evaluates various parameters related to many organs and systems, it has a better ability to predict extubation success in MV patients.