Weaning of neurological early rehabilitation patients from mechanical ventilation: a retrospective observational study.

CONCLUSIONS: Most patients could be weaned from mechanical ventilation during early rehabilitation within approximately two weeks. Results from this study suggest that patients morbidity (as indicated by the total number of secondary diagnoses) and isolation due to colonization with multi-drug resistant bacteria may be deleterious to the weaning process. CLINICAL REHABILITATION IMPACT: In evaluation of the weaning prognosis of critically ill neurological and neurosurgical early rehabilitation patients, concomitant morbidity and colonization with multi-drug resistant bacteria should be taken into account. PMID: 28382808 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Medical Physics - Category: Physics Authors: Tags: Eur J Phys Rehabil Med Source Type: research