Prediction of prolonged mechanical ventilation for intensive care unit patients : A cohort study

ABSTRACT: Introduction: There are no established guidelines for selecting patients for early tracheostomy. The aim was to determine the factors that could predict the possibility of intubation longer than 7 days in critically ill adult patients. Methods: This is cohort study made at a general intensive care unit. Patients who required at least 48 hours of mechanical ventilation were included. Data on the clinical and physiologic features were collected for every intubated patient on the third day. Uni- and multivariate statistical analyses were conducted to determine the variables associated with extubation. Results: 163 (62%) were male, and the median age was 59±17 years. Almost one-third (36%) of patients required mechanical ventilation longer than 7 days. The variables strongly associated with prolonged mechanical ventilation were: age (HR 0.97 (95% CI 0.96-0.99); diagnosis of surgical emergency in a patient with a medical condition (HR 3.68 (95% CI 1.62-8.35), diagnosis of surgical condition-non emergency (HR 8.17 (95% CI 2.12-31.3); diagnosis of non-surgical-medical condition (HR 5.26 (95% CI 1.85-14.9); APACHE II (HR 0.91 (95% CI 0.85-0.97) and SAPS II score (HR 1.04 (95% CI 1.00-1.09) The area under ROC curve used for prediction was 0.52. 16% of patients were extubated after day 8 of intubation. Conclusions: It was not possible to predict early extubation in critically ill adult patients with invasive mechanical ventilation with common clinical scales used at the ICU. However, the probability of successfully weaning patients from mechanical ventilation without a tracheostomy is low after the eighth day of intubation.

• Autores: Sanabria Quiroga, Álvaro Enrique; Gómez, Ximena; Vega Peña, Neil Valentín; Dominguez, Luis Carlos; Osorio, Camilo
• Tipo de recurso: Article of investigation
• Fecha de publicación: 2013
• Institución: Universidad de Antioquia
• Repositorio: Repositorio UdeA
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:bibliotecadigital.udea.edu.co:10495/32257
• Acceso en línea: https://hdl.handle.net/10495/32257
• Palabra clave: Traqueostomía; Tracheostomy; Respiración Artificial; Respiration, Artificial; Unidades de Cuidados Intensivos; Intensive Care Units; Desconexión del Ventilador; Ventilator Weaning; Intubación Intratraqueal; Intubation, Intratracheal; Factores de Riesgo; Risk Factors
• Rights: openAccess
• License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/