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Intensive Care Medicine
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine 12/2007

01-12-2007 | Correspondence

Chest physiotherapy and outcomes in ICU

Authors: Marcelo do Amaral Beraldo, Karina Timenetsky

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 12/2007

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Sir: In the intriguing report by Templeton and Palazzo [1], the authors analyzed the impact of chest physiotherapy in the time to become ventilator-free (defined as the time between initiation of ventilation and when ventilator-free) in 172 critically ill patients under mechanical ventilation. The study was a well-designed single-blinded randomized trial, and the authors suggested that chest physiotherapy was associated with a longer time to become ventilator-free than a control group. …
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Templeton M, Palazzo MG (2007) Chest physiotherapy prolongs duration of ventilation in the critically ill ventilated for more than 48 hours. Intensive Care Med DOI 10.​1007/​s00134-007-0894-6
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Esteban A, Anzueto A, Frutos F, Alía I, Brochard L, Stewart TE, Benito S, Epstein SK, Apezteguía C, Nightingale P, Arroliga AC, Tobin MJ, Mechanical Ventilation International Study Group (2002) Characteristics and outcomes in adult patients receiving mechanical ventilation: a 28-day international study. Jama 287:345–355PubMedCrossRef
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Schoenfeld DA, Bernard GR (2002) Statistical evaluation of ventilator-free days as an efficacy measure in clinical trials of treatments for acute respiratory distress syndrome. Crit Care Med 30:1772–1777PubMedCrossRef
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Hernandez AV, Eijkemans MJ, Steyerberg EW (2006) Randomized controlled trials with time-to-event outcomes: how much does prespecified covariate adjustment increase power? Ann Epidemiol 16:41–48PubMedCrossRef
Metadata
Title
Chest physiotherapy and outcomes in ICU
Authors
Marcelo do Amaral Beraldo
Karina Timenetsky
Publication date
01-12-2007
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 12/2007
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-007-0893-7

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