AMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY DOCUMENT
An Official American Thoracic Society/American College of Chest Physicians
Clinical Practice Guideline: Liberation from Mechanical Ventilation in Critically Ill
Adults.
Rehabilitation Protocols, Ventilator Liberation Protocols, and Cuff Leak Tests
Timothy D. Girard, Waleed Alhazzani, John P. Kress, Daniel R. Ouellette, Gregory A. Schmidt,
Jonathon D. Truwit, Suzanne M. Burns, Scott Epstein, Andres Esteban, Eddy Fan, Miguel Ferrer,
Gilles L. Fraser, Michelle Ng Gong, Catherine Hough, Sangeeta Mehta, Rahul Nanchal, Sheena
Patel, Amy Pawlik, Curtis N. Sessler, Thomas Strom, William Schweickert, Kevin C. Wilson, and
Peter E. Morris
THIS OFFICIAL CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINE OF THE AMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY (ATS) AND THE AMERICAN
COLLEGE OF CHEST PHYSICIANS (CHEST) WAS APPROVED BY THE ATS BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND BY THE CHEST
BOARD OF R EGENTS
This article is one component of the official ATS/CHEST clinical practice guideline; it is being
simultaneously published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and in
Chest. Recommendations 1-3 in detail are being published as a separate article in CHEST.
Correspondence and requests for reprints should be addressed to Timothy D. Girard, M.D., M.S.CI.,
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3550 Terrace Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261. E-mail: timothy.girard@upmc.edu.
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ABSTRACT
Background: Interventions that lead to earlier liberation from mechanical ventilation can
improve patient outcomes. This guideline, a collaborative effort between the American
Thoracic Society (ATS) and the American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST), provides
evidence-based recommendations to optimiz
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