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Intensive Care Medicine
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine 2/2008

01-02-2008 | Correspondence

Answer to E. W. Ely: “Remembrance of weaning past”

Author: Martin Tobin

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 2/2008

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Excerpt

Sir: I thank E.W. Ely for his comments [1] on my article, “Remembrance of Weaning Past: The Seminal Papers” [2]. Dr. Ely says that I made a factual error when I stated that the portrayal of his 1996 study [3] as a comparison of weaning-by-protocol vs. usual care [4] flouts internal validity. …
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Ely EW (2007) Comment on “Remembrance of weaning past: the seminal papers,” by Dr. Martin Tobin. Intensive Care Med 33:746PubMedCrossRef
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Tobin MJ (2006) Remembrance of weaning past: the seminal papers. Intensive Care Med 32:1485–1493PubMedCrossRef
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Ely EW, Baker AM, Dunagan DP, Burke HL, Smith AC, Kelly PT, Johnson MM, Browder RW, Bowton DL, Haponik EF (1996) Effect on the duration of mechanical ventilation of identifying patients capable of breathing spontaneously. N Engl J Med 335:1684–1869CrossRef
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Ely EW, Meade MO, Haponik EF, Kollef MH, Cook DJ, Guyatt GH, Stoller JK (2001) Mechanical ventilator weaning protocols driven by nonphysician health-care professionals: evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. Chest (Suppl) 120(6):S454–S463
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Tobin MJ, Jubran A (in press) Meta-analysis under the spotlight: focused on a meta-analysis of ventilator weaning. Crit Care Med
Metadata
Title
Answer to E. W. Ely: “Remembrance of weaning past”
Author
Martin Tobin
Publication date
01-02-2008
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 2/2008
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-007-0911-9

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