Aim: To describe currently existing in Poland practices and facilities for mechanical ventilation of newborns ... Survey on Practices in Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care” in 2009.

Setting: A single neonatal intensive care unit. Patients: Neonates requiring conventional mechanical ventilation (n = 50). Interventions: Infants on conventional ventilation were randomly assigned ...

We have demonstrated a significant reduction in the duration of weaning neonates from mechanical ventilation by 30.25 hrs when nurses compared with specialist registrars conducted the process.