The ventilation could extend the patient’s life, but it also has negative impacts on patient’s body, mind and social health. Further, patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease have lower mechanical ventilation weaning rate and higher mortality rate. This case report described a 53 years-old intubating patient with respiratory failure due to acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The condition of the patient had improved after receiving a mechanical ventilation weaning program. For better life quality and higher weaning rate from mechanical ventilation, the purpose of this article is to explore the effects of inspiratory muscle training for intubated patients under weaning program. According to the five steps of the evidence-based practice, the therapeutic question has a format that follows the PICO concept. A systematic review was conducted and the databases including: PubMed, Cochrane Library, Scopus, and Airiti Library. Based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 5 articles of intervention about inspiratory muscle training addressing relevant randomized controlled trials were extracted for pooling and analysis. All studies contained a total of 254 critically ill patients that received inspiratory muscle training improved mechanical ventilation weaning rate. The meta-analysis showed that effect sizes of 1.26 (95% CI [1.01, 1.57]). According the results of the review, the patient in this case received an inspiratory muscle training program with initial training loads equivalent to 20~40% of a person’s maximum inspiratory pressure, once or twice a day, five to seven days per week. The patient successfully weaned from the ventilator eventually. Therefore, critically ill patients who have been adjusted to the pressure-support mode of ventilator could received inspiratory muscle training to improve ventilator weaning rate and care quality.