Table 2.
Outcome measure | Study | Year | Risk factors |
---|---|---|---|
Laryngeal injury | Colice and colleagues [2] | 1989 | Persistent laryngeal neuromotor activity, tracheostomy |
Kastanos and colleagues [17] | 1983 | Severe respiratory failure, high cuff pressure, duration of endotracheal intubation, secretion infection | |
Esteller and colleagues [19] | 2005 | Longer duration of intubation, tracheostomy, number of days in the intensive care unit | |
Laryngeal edema | Darmon and colleagues [4] | 1992 | Duration of intubation (>36 hours), gender (female) |
Francois and colleagues [6] | 2007 | Trauma at admission, gender (female), short duration of intubation (<7 days), smaller height to tube diameter ratio, absence of methylprednisolone pre treatment | |
Post-extubation stridor | Cheng and colleagues [3] | 2006 | Gender (female), lower Glasgow coma score, nonsedation treatment |
Sandhu and colleagues [26] | 2000 | Duration of intubation (>3 days) | |
Daley and colleagues [9] | 1996 | Tracheostomy, time to reintubation | |
Ho and colleagues [7] | 1996 | Gender (female) | |
Jaber and colleagues [30] | 2003 | High SAPS II, medical patients, difficult intubation, history of self-extubation, prolonged intubation, high cuff pressure | |
Kriner and colleagues [8] | 2005 | Gender (female), duration of intubation (>6 days), ratio tube size to laryngeal size >45% | |
Wang and colleagues [14] | 2007 | Gender (female) | |
Maury and colleagues [25] | 2004 | Gender (female) | |
Erginel and colleagues [15] | 2005 | Duration of ventilation (>5 days), body mass index (>26.5) | |
Reintubation | Daley and colleagues [9] | 1996 | Tracheostomy, post-extubation stridor |
Jaber and colleagues [30] | 2003 | Post-extubation stridor | |
Epstein and colleagues [1] | 1997 | APACHE II score, age, cardiopulmonary cause for reintubation | |
Sandhu and colleagues [26] | 2000 | Duration of previous intubation (>3 days) |
APACHE, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation; SAPS, Simplified Acute Physiology Score.