Breathing Easier: Model-based decision support for respiratory care looks beyond tomorrow.

Mechanical ventilation (MV) is a primary therapy for intensive care unit (ICU) patients who have respiratory failure. Up to ~60% of all ICU patients require MV, and?because they are so ill?this patient group stays in the ICU 50?100% longer. They also cost almost 100% more due to this added care, and, troublingly, have a mortality rate of almost 30%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]