Preoperative risk factors for successful extubation or not after lung transplantation.

Conclusions: Preoperative independent sputum clearance, preoperative ECMO, older than 65-year-old, and double lung or heart-LTx were four independent risk factors for unsuccessful extubation. Moreover, preoperative ECMO was the only independent risk factor for reintubation. PMID: 33447402 [PubMed]
Source: Journal of Thoracic Disease - Category: Respiratory Medicine Tags: J Thorac Dis Source Type: research