Table 1.
Patient characteristics
| Included patients N = 60 |
|
|---|---|
| Age, mean (SD), years | 70.7 (11.2) |
| Male, n (%) | 37 (61.7) |
| Body mass index, mean (SD), kg/m2 | 24.9 (4.0) |
| Patient category | |
| Non-scheduled surgery, n (%) | 16 (26.7) |
| Scheduled surgery, n (%) | 23 (38.3) |
| Medical, n (%) | 21 (35.0) |
| APACHE II score, median (IQR), points* | 19 (14–25) |
| SOFA score, median (IQR), points* | 8 (7–11.5) |
| Updated Charlson comorbidity index, median (IQR), points | 3 (2–4) |
| Chronic heart failure, n (%) | 40 (66.7) |
| Chronic respiratory failure, n (%) | 8 (1.3) |
| Renal disease, n (%) | 35 (58.3) |
| Mechanical ventilation duration, days† | 2 (2–4) |
| Weaning category‡ | |
| Short weaning, n (%) | 50 (83.3) |
| Difficult weaning, n (%) | 10 (16.7) |
| Prolonged weaning, n (%) | 0 (0) |
| Glasgow Coma Scale, median (IQR), points† | 14 (13–15) |
| Vasoactive drugs use, n (%)† | 32 (53.3) |
| Nasal gastric tube placement†, n (%) | 40 (66.7) |
| Reintubation within ICU stay, n (%) | 3 (5.0) |
| Length of ICU stay, days | 4 (3–8) |
| Length of hospitalization§, days | 33 (23.5–41) |
| ICU mortality, n (%) | 0 (0) |
| Hospital mortality, n (%) | 10 (16.7) |
APACHE II, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II; ICU, Intensive Care Unit; SOFA, Sequential Organ Failure Assessment
*At ICU admission
†At the day of extubation
‡Defined by the WIND criteria
§Excluded 10 patients who died