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.