Revisiting Unplanned Endotracheal Extubation and Disease Severity in Intensive Care Units.

Most reports regarding unplanned extubation (UE) are case-control studies with matching age and disease severity. To avoid diminishing differences in matched factors, this study with only matching duration of mechanical ventilation aimed to re-examine the risk factors and the factors governing outco...

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Main Authors: Ming-Lung Chuang, Chai-Yuan Lee, Yi-Fang Chen, Shih-Feng Huang, I-Feng Lin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4617893?pdf=render