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OBJETIVO: Avaliar a utilização de equipamentos para realização de ventilação não invasiva em pacientes crônicos traqueostomizados com desmame prolongado. MÉTODOS: Estudo observacional retrospectivo, por meio de levantamento de dados de prontuários, em pacientes traqueostomizados com diagnóstico de desmame prolongado, os quais estiveram internados na unidade de terapia intensiva para adultos do Hospital Moinhos de Vento, em Porto Alegre (RS), no período de dezembro de 2007 a dezembro de 2008. RESULTADOS: Durante o período pré-estabelecido para a coleta dos dados, 1.482 pacientes estiveram internados na unidade de terapia intensiva. Destes, 126 pacientes foram traqueostomizados e 26 preencheram os critérios de inclusão no estudo. A média idade dos pacientes foi de 73 ± 12 anos, 57,7% eram do gênero feminino e 80,8% dos casos internaram por insuficiência respiratória aguda hipoxêmica. Após a realização de traqueostomia, os pacientes permaneceram, em média, 29,8 dias ainda em ventilação mecânica e, após o início do protocolo nos traqueostomizados, 53,5 dias em ventilação com ventilador portátil de ventilação não invasiva na traquestomia até a alta, desmame da ventilação não invasiva ou óbito durante a internação na unidade de terapia intensiva ou no hospital. De todos os pacientes protocolados, 76,9% (20/26) receberam alta da unidade de terapia intensiva e 53,8% (14/26) alta hospitalar. CONCLUSÃO: A utilização de ventiladores portáteis utilizados para a realização de ventilação não invasiva conectados a traqueostomia pode ser uma alternativa para a descontinuação da ventilação e alta da unidade de terapia intensiva em pacientes traqueostomizados com desmame ventilatório prolongado.
OBJECTIVE: We aimed to assess the use of noninvasive ventilation devices in patients with prolonged weaning following tracheotomy. METHODS: We performed a retrospective observational study using data collected from the clinical records of tracheotomized patients diagnosed with prolonged weaning. The participants were hospitalized in the adult intensive care unit of Moinhos de Vento Hospital, Porto Alegre (RS) between December 2007 and December 2008. RESULTS: In the data collection period, 1,482 patients were admitted to the intensive care unit. In total, 126 patients underwent tracheotomies, and 26 of these patients met the inclusion criteria for participating in the study. The average age of the patients in our sample was 73 ± 12 years. In our sample, 57.7% of the participants were female, and 80.8% were admitted as a result of acute hypoxemic respiratory failure. After the tracheotomy, the patients remained under mechanical ventilation for an average of 29.8 days. After the initiation of the experimental protocol, the tracheotomized patients remained under ventilation for an average of 53.5 days on a portable noninvasive device connected to the tracheotomy. There were three possible outcomes for the patients. They were discharged, were weaned from the noninvasive ventilation, or died in the intensive care unit or hospital ward. In total, 76.9% (20/26) of the patients were discharged from the intensive care unit, and 53.8% (14/26) of the patients were discharged from the hospital. CONCLUSION: The use of noninvasive portable ventilators connected to the tracheotomy may represent an alternative for discontinuing ventilationand discharging tracheotomized patients with prolonged ventilatory weaning from intensive care unit.
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BACKGROUND: Predictor indexes are often included in weaning protocols and may help the intensive care unit (ICU) staff to reach expected weaning outcome in patients on mechanical ventilation. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study is to evaluate the potential of weaning predictors during extubation. DESIGN: This is a prospective clinical study. SETTINGS: The study was conducted in 3 medical-surgical ICUs. PATIENTS: Five hundred consecutive unselected patients ventilated for more than 48 hours were included. METHODS AND MEASUREMENTS: All patients were extubated after 30 minutes of successful spontaneous breathing trial and followed up for 48 hours. The protocol evaluated hemodynamics, ventilation parameters, arterial blood gases, and the weaning indexes frequency to tidal volume ratio; compliance, respiratory rate, oxygenation, and pressure; maximal inspiratory pressure; maximal expiratory pressure; Pao(2)/fraction of inspired oxygen; respiratory frequency; and tidal volume during mechanical ventilation and in the 1st and 30th minute of spontaneous breathing trial. RESULTS: Reintubation rate was 22.8%, and intensive care mortality was higher in the reintubation group (10% vs 31%; P < .0001). The areas under the receiver operating characteristic curve showed that tests did not discriminate which patients could tolerate extubation. CONCLUSION: Usual weaning indexes are poor predictors for extubation outcome in the overall ICU population.
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Airway Extubation , Ventilator Weaning , Adult , Aged , Clinical Protocols , Critical Illness , Female , Follow-Up Studies , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Prospective Studies , Treatment FailureABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: We aimed to assess the use of noninvasive ventilation devices in patients with prolonged weaning following tracheotomy. METHODS: We performed a retrospective observational study using data collected from the clinical records of tracheotomized patients diagnosed with prolonged weaning. The participants were hospitalized in the adult intensive care unit of Moinhos de Vento Hospital, Porto Alegre (RS) between December 2007 and December 2008. RESULTS: In the data collection period, 1,482 patients were admitted to the intensive care unit. In total, 126 patients underwent tracheotomies, and 26 of these patients met the inclusion criteria for participating in the study. The average age of the patients in our sample was 73 ± 12 years. In our sample, 57.7% of the participants were female, and 80.8% were admitted as a result of acute hypoxemic respiratory failure. After the tracheotomy, the patients remained under mechanical ventilation for an average of 29.8 days. After the initiation of the experimental protocol, the tracheotomized patients remained under ventilation for an average of 53.5 days on a portable noninvasive device connected to the tracheotomy. There were three possible outcomes for the patients. They were discharged, were weaned from the noninvasive ventilation, or died in the intensive care unit or hospital ward. In total, 76.9% (20/26) of the patients were discharged from the intensive care unit, and 53.8% (14/26) of the patients were discharged from the hospital. CONCLUSION: The use of noninvasive portable ventilators connected to the tracheotomy may represent an alternative for discontinuing ventilationand discharging tracheotomized patients with prolonged ventilatory weaning from intensive care unit.
