The excellent paper “Relationship between static lung compliance and extubation failure in postoperative cardiac surgery patients” published in the Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia gave one additional tool to make more precise decisions for successful and maintained extubation in postoperative cardiac surgery. The authors have studied 102 patients submitted to several types of cardiac surgery under extracorporeal circulation and have found the need for reintubation in 25 patients (24,5%) after the first 48 hours of primary extubation. Extubation failure patients have […]