Measured TV, SpO/FiO ratio, SBT at the moment of extubation and values of SAS starting 1 h after extubation might be valuable parameters in identifying those VLBW newborns in the risk to fail extubation.

DAN is a pain scale convenient for the use in clinical settings, especially if a fine distinction of magnitude of the present pain is not needed, whereas PIPP can be used if adequate equipment is available.

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Internal medicine patients are frequently prescribed PIMs. PIM-Check's PIM detection rate was three times higher than STOPP/START's, and its screening time was shorter thanks to its electronic interface. Nearly half of the PIMs detected were judged to be non-clinically relevant, however, potentially overalerting the prescriber. These tools can, nevertheless, be considered useful in daily practice. Furthermore, the relevance of any PIM detected by these tools should always be carefully evaluated within the clinical context surrounding the individual patient.