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Abstract Mechanical ventilation is an essential therapy in the ICU, and a large percentage of the ICU patient population will need this therapy during their ICU stay. Weaning from mechanical ventilation remains to be a cumbersome process that occupies a large percentage of the total ventilation time of the patients. Failure to predict readiness for weaning from mechanical ventilation may result in prolonged mechanical ventilation or premature weaning resulting in serious complications. The weaning process remains to be a subjective decision made by the physician in charge of the patient. Multiple weaning parameters have been developed and studied over the years in order to improve and unify the weaning process and to try to develop a unified a weaning parameter The integrative weaning index (IWI) was developed in order to incorporate different respiratory system measurements in order to evaluate the overall all respiratory system performance and predict successful weaning from mechanical ventilation.. The index was studied further by many authors and compared to the traditional weaning parameters. The aim of the current study was to validate the performance of the IWI in comparison to the traditional weaning parameters . The study was designed as a single center prospective observational study, which was conducted at Menoufia University hospital ICU. A total of 120 patients were enrolled in this study. Summary |