Bell, Alison
Kuriyama, Akira
Khazaei, Omid
McNicholas, Bairbre A.
Pham, Tài
Heunks, Leo
Bellani, Giacomo
Brochard, Laurent
Simpkin, Andrew J.
Laffey, John G.
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Funding for this research was provided by:
European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (N/A)
European Respiratory Society (N/A)
Article History
Received: 29 June 2025
Accepted: 24 September 2025
First Online: 21 October 2025
Declarations
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: The WEAN SAFE National coordinators and site investigators (Appendix 1) were responsible for obtaining ethics committee approval and for ensuring data integrity and validity. The WEAN SAFE study was registered registered at Clinicaltrials.gov, number NCT03255109.
: Not Applicable.
: AB, AK, OK, BAM, TP and AS have no conflicts of interest to report. GB reports a grant from Drager to his institution, consulting fees from Flowmeter, payments/honoraria from Drager and Getinge, and stock options in Dico technologies. LH reports funding from the European Respiratory Society to his institution support the study; grants from Liberate Medical and InflaRx to his institution, honoraria from Getinge and American Thoracic Society and reimbursement from European Respiratory Society. LB reports grants from Medtronic, Drager and Stimity to his institution, honoraria and equipment received from Fisher Paykel. JGL reports grants from Science Foundation Ireland and Health Research Board Ireland to his institution, and consulting fees from Cellenkos.