Intellectually disabled patients’ intensive care admission characteristics, weaning from mechanical ventilation, and sedative drug use: a single-center retrospective case-control study

Intellectually disabled patients’ intensive care admission characteristics, weaning from mechanical ventilation, and sedative drug use: a single-center retrospective case-control study

Abstract Background Intellectually disabled (ID) patients present unique therapeutic challenges. We aimed to describe the characteristics of ID patients admitted to a general intensive care unit (ICU). Results We conducted a retrospective cohort study comparing critically ill adult ID patients to ma...

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Main Authors: Noa Bineth, Nevo Barel, Tali Bdolah-Abram, Philip Levin, Sharon Einav
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-12-01
Series:Journal of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Critical Care
Subjects:
Intellectually disability
Mental-retardation
Critical-care
Airway-management
Respiration, Artificial
Medicine, Clinical
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s44158-022-00081-4

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