How should spontaneous breathing trials be performed in the light of recent literature?

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Balancing lung and brain: physiological strategies for ARDS management in acute brain injury.Intensive care medicine · 2026
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2. Integrated comprehensive assessment for predicting weaning success in difficult-to-wean critically ill patients: the WEAN-US study.Critical care (London, England) · 2026
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3. Weaning of neuromuscular patients: the reality is probably somewhere in between. Author's reply.Intensive care medicine · 2026
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4. Ventilator-induced lung injury: from mechanisms to integrated clinical management.Frontiers in medicine · 2026
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5. PEEP in SBTs: breathing and beyond.Annals of intensive care · 2025
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Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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