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Author: Oliveira, Marco Antonio da Rosa E ; Amorim, Fabio Ferreira ; Gama, Ana Maria Casati Nogueira da ; Silva, Vinicius Zacarias Maldaner da ; Rocco, Patricia Rieken Macedo ; Park, Marcelo ; Matos, Gustavo Faissol Janot de ; Saddy, Felipe ; Farias, Augusto Manoel de Carvalho ; Maia, Israel Silva ; Damasceno, Marta Cristina Pauleti ; Cordioli, Ricardo Luiz ; Toufen Junior, Carlos ; Caruso, Pedro ; Bellissimo-Rodrigues, Wanessa Teixeira ; Barbas, Carmen Silvia Valente ; Valiatti, Jorge Luis Dos Santos ; Silva, Gisele Sampaio ; Franzosi, Oellen Stuani ; Carvalho, Carlos Roberto Ribeiro de ; Goldwasser, Rosane ; Souza, João Claudio Emmerich de ; Isola, Alexandre Marini ; Carvalho, Erich Vidal ; Zanatta, Giovanna Carolina Gardini ; Pattacini, Max Morais ; Serpa Neto, Ary ; Westphal, Glauco Adrieno ; Hajjar, Ludhmila Abrahão ; Amato, Marcelo Britto Passos ; Silva Junior, João Manoel ; Forgiarini Junior, Luiz Alberto ; Oliveira, Vanessa Martins de ; Orlando, Bianca Rodrigues ; Mendes, Pedro Vitale ; Reis, Marco Antonio Soares ; Vianna, Arthur Oswaldo de Abreu ; Galas, Filomena Regina Barbosa Gomes ; Rodrigues, Ricardo Goulart ; Silva, Pedro Leme ; Santa Neto, Renato Fabio Alberto Della ; Nemer, Sergio Nogueira ; Rocha, Angelo Roncalli Miranda ; Lira-Batista, Marta Maria da Silva ; Medeiros, Denise Machado ; Palazzo, Roberta Fittipaldi ; Pinheiro, Sabrina Dos Santos ; Pinheiro, Bruno Valle ; Parolo, Edino ; Baldisserotto, Sérgio Vasconcellos ; Oliveira, Neymar Elias de ; Oliveira, Ellen Pierre de ; Assunção, Murillo Santucci Cesar de ; Cavalcanti, Alexandre Biasi ; Caser, Eliana Bernadete ; Malbuisson, Luiz Marcelo Sá ; Nedel, Wagner Luis ; Esteves, Bruno da Costa ; Oliveira Filho, Wilson de ; Tavares, Marcos Soares ; Silveira, Débora Dutra da ; Oliveira, Antonio Gonçalves de ; Justino, Sandra Regina ; Teixeira, Cassiano ; Silveira, Camila de Freitas Martins Soares ; Banholzer, Eric Grieger ; Mazza, Bruno Franco ; Gonçalves, Fernanda Alves Ferreira ; Duarte, Pericles Almeida Delfino ; Souza, Mario Henrique Dutra de ; Rocco, Jose Rodolfo ; Holanda, Marcelo Alcantara ; Costa, Eduardo Leite Vieira ; Nascimento Junior, José Ribamar do ; Ferreira, Juliana Carvalho
Mechanical ventilation can be a life-saving intervention, but its implementation requires a multidisciplinary approach, with an understanding of its indications and contraindications due to the potential for complications. The management of mechanical ventilation should be part of the curricula during clinical training; however, trainees and practicing professionals frequently report low confidence in managing mechanical ventilation, often seeking additional sources of knowledge. Review articles, consensus statements and clinical practice guidelines have become important sources of guidance in mechanical ventilation, and although clinical practice guidelines offer rigorously developed recommendations, they take a long time to develop and can address only a limited number of clinical questions. The Associação de Medicina Intensiva Brasileira and the Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisiologia sponsored the development of a joint statement addressing all aspects of mechanical ventilation, which was divided into 38 topics. Seventy-five experts from all regions of Brazil worked in pairs to perform scoping reviews, searching for publications on their specific topic of mechanical ventilation in the last 20 years in the highest impact factor journals in the areas of intensive care, pulmonology, and anesthesiology. Each pair produced suggestions and considerations on their topics, which were presented to the entire group in a plenary session for modification when necessary and approval. The result was a comprehensive document encompassing all aspects of mechanical ventilation to provide guidance at the bedside. In this article, we report the methodology used to produce the document and highlight the most important suggestions and considerations of the document, which has been made available to the public in Portuguese.