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Available online /content/12/4/221 Review Clinical review: Liberation from mechanical ventilation Mohamad F El-Khatib and Pierre Bou-Khalil Departments of Anesthesiology and Medicine, School of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut 1107 2020, Lebanon Corresponding author: Pierre Bou-Khalil, pb05@.lb Published: 6 August 2008 Critical Care 2008, 12:221 (doi:10.1186/cc6959) This article is online at /content/12/4/221 ? 2008 BioMed Central Ltd Abstract predict patient tolerance of a 1-hour period on minimal pressure support. Also, Afessa and colleagues [10] reported t