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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2017 Apr;18(4):310–318. doi: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000001074

Table 1.

Factors associated with occurrence of TIAEs and severe TIAEs*

Factors Any TIAEs or desaturation <80%
N=1,617
No event
N=3,887
p-value Any TIAEs
N= 892
No TIAEs
N= 4,612
p-value Severe TIAEs
N= 364
No severe TIAEs
N= 5,140
p-value

Age
Age in year (median, IQR) 0 (0–4) 1 (0–7) <0.0001 1 (0–5) 1 (0–6) 0.06 2 (0–7) 1 (0–6) 0.005
Infant 814 (50%) 1,716 (44%) <0.001 429 (48%) 2,101 (46%) 0.12 142 (39%) 2,388 (46%) 0.02
Child (1–7 year) 525 (33%) 1,307 (34%) 300 (34%) 1,532 (33%) 137 (38%) 1,695 (33%)
Older child (8–17 year) 278 (17%) 864 (22%) 163 (18%) 979 (21%) 85 (23%) 1,057 (21%)

PIM2 (%, median, IQR) 1.7 (0.8–5.3) 1.9 (0.9–6.1) 0.11 1.9 (0.9–5.5) 1.9 (0.9–5.9) 0.92 2.6 (0.9–6.4) 1.8 (0.9–5.8) 0.16

Diagnosis P<0.001 0.003 0.002
Lower respiratory 611 (38%) 1,232 (32%) 300 (34%) 1,543 (33%) 111 (30%) 1,732 (34%)
Upper respiratory 175 (11%) 385 (10%) 90 (10%) 470 (10%) 36 (10%) 524 (10%)
Neurological 174 (11%) 815 (21%) 119 (13%) 870 (19%) 46 (13%) 943 (18%)
Cardiac-surgical 176 (11%) 380 (10%) 95 (11%) 461 (10%) 35 (10%) 521 (10%)
Cardiac-medical 103 (6%) 240 (6%) 62 (7%) 281 (6%) 30 (8%) 313 (6%)
Sepsis 133 (8%) 251 (6%) 80 (9%) 304 (7%) 42 (12%) 342 (7%)
Trauma 24 (1%) 85 (2%) 16 (2%) 93 (2%) 8 (2%) 101 (2%)
Other 221 (14%) 499 (13%) 130 (14%) 590 (13%) 56 (15%) 664 (13%)

Indication for tracheal intubation**
Respiratory 1,072 (66%) 2,095 (54%) <0.001 562 (63%) 2,605 (56%) <0.001 239 (66%) 2,928 (57%) 0.001
Upper airway obstruction 197 (12%) 405 (10%) 0.06 103 (12%) 499 (11%) 0.52 47 (13%) 555 (11%) 0.21
Hemodynamic 250 (15%) 444 (11%) <0.001 173 (19%) 521 (11%) <0.001 102 (28%) 592 (12%) <0.001
Procedural 178 (11%) 813 (21%) <0.001 101 (11%) 890 (19%) <0.001 30 (8%) 961 (19%) <0.001
Impaired airway protection 108 (7%) 306 (8%) 0.13 78 (9%) 336 (7%) 0.13 38 (10%) 376 (7%) 0.03
Neuromuscular weakness 42 (3%) 114 (3%) 0.50 28 (3%) 128 (3%) 0.55 14 (4%) 142 (3%) 0.23
Pulmonary toilet 96 (6%) 188 (5%) 0.10 48 (5%) 236 (5%) 0.74 22 (6%) 262 (5%) 0.43
Therapeutic hyperventilation 7 (0%) 61 (2%) 0.001 5 (1%) 63 (1%) 0.046 2 (1%) 66 (1%) 0.32

Difficult airway features
History of difficult airway 287 (18%) 507 (13%) <0.001 146 (16%) 648 (14%) 0.07 55 (15%) 739 (14%) 0.70
Upper airway obstruction 204 (13%) 348 (9%) <0.001 118 (13 %) 434 (9 %) 0.001 56 (15%) 496 (10%) <0.001
*

TIAE: tracheal intubation associated events

PIM2 data were missing in 1,248 cases (22.7%). The missingness was not associated with ICU mortality. IQR denotes interquartile range.

**

Patients may have more than one indication for intubation