What is new?
Our aim was to determine gaps in various steps in the weaning process in first phase, to create awareness among resident doctors in the second phase to improve weaning practices and increase the compliance to various steps of the protocol in third phase. Most of the previous studies mentioned have not assessed the compliance in following in individual steps of weaning protocol and have assumed the compliance in following various steps to be 100%. However our study has tried to convey a pragmatic view of the scenario that would happen in a typical ICU in a high burden setting wherein the compliance is affected by the availability of resources.