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Available online /content/13/2/R56 Vol 13 No 2 Open Access Research A pilot study of a new test to predict extubation failure 1 1 1 1 1 José F Solsona , Yolanda Díaz , Antonia Vázquez , Maria Pilar Gracia , Ana Zapatero and Jaume Marrugat2 1ICU Hospital de Mar, Paseo Maritimo 25-29 Barcelona 08003, Spain 2Institut Municipal dInvestigacio Medica, C/Aiguader 80, Barcelona 08003, Spain Corresponding author: José F Solsona, 13713@imas.imim.es Received: 10 Dec 2008 Revisions requested: 20 Jan 2009 Revisions received: 19 Feb 2009 Accepted: 14 Apr 2009 Published: 14 Apr 2009 Critical Care 2009, 13:R56 (doi:10.1186/cc7783) This article is online at: /content/13/2/R56 © 2009 Solsona et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction To determine whether subjecting patients to 100 minutes; and arterial blood gases were measured at the ml of additional dead space after a 120-minute weaning trial beginning and end of the test. Extubation failure was defined as could predict readiness for extubation. the need for mechanical and non-invasive ventilation within 48 hours of extubation. Methods This was a prospective, non-randomised pilot study in an intensive