The inscrutable signatures of patient-ventilator asynchrony: all the light we cannot see

A year in review in Minerva Anestesiologica 2019. Critical care

“…63 in the accompanying editorial, Ventre stressed the detrimental impact of asynchronies on the weaning process. 64 Finally, the assessment of diaphragmatic thickness (Dt) with ultrasound has recently gained popularity among intensivists because it proved to be a good index of diaphragmatic trophism. in the april issue, corradi et al showed that in 77 patients admitted to the hospital for coViD-19 infection, a worse outcome, i.e., the need for invasive mechanical ventilation (iMV) or patient death, was significantly associated with a thin diaphragm at baseline measurement.…”