Extubation Failure in Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients : Risk Factors and Impact on In-Hospital Mortality

PURPOSE: We sought to identify clinical factors that predict extubation failure (reintubation) and its prognostic implications in critically ill COVID-19 patients.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: Retrospective, multi-center cohort study of hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Multivariate competing risk models were employed to explore the rate of reintubation and its determining factors.

RESULTS: Two hundred eighty-one extubated patients were included (mean age, 61.0 years [±13.9]; 54.8% male). Reintubation occurred in 93 (33.1%). In multivariate analysis accounting for death, reintubation risk increased with age (hazard ratio [HR] 1.04 per 1-year increase, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.02 -1.06), vasopressors (HR 1.84, 95% CI 1.04-3.60), renal replacement (HR 2.01, 95% CI 1.22-3.29), maximum PEEP (HR 1.07 per 1-unit increase, 95% CI 1.02 -1.12), paralytics (HR 1.48, 95% CI 1.08-2.25) and requiring more than nasal cannula immediately post-extubation (HR 2.19, 95% CI 1.37-3.50). Reintubation was associated with higher mortality (36.6% vs 2.1%; P < 0.0001) and risk of inpatient death after adjusting for multiple factors (HR 23.2, 95% CI 6.45-83.33). Prone ventilation, corticosteroids, anticoagulation, remdesivir and tocilizumab did not impact the risk of reintubation or death.

CONCLUSIONS: Up to 1 in 3 critically ill COVID-19 patients required reintubation. Older age, paralytics, high PEEP, need for greater respiratory support following extubation and non-pulmonary organ failure predicted reintubation. Extubation failure strongly predicted adverse outcomes.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:36

Enthalten in:

Journal of intensive care medicine - 36(2021), 9 vom: 01. Sept., Seite 1018-1024

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ionescu, Filip [VerfasserIn]
Zimmer, Markie S [VerfasserIn]
Petrescu, Ioana [VerfasserIn]
Castillo, Edward [VerfasserIn]
Bozyk, Paul [VerfasserIn]
Abbas, Amr [VerfasserIn]
Abplanalp, Lauren [VerfasserIn]
Dogra, Sanjay [VerfasserIn]
Nair, Girish B [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Critical illness
Journal Article
Multicenter Study
Novel coronavirus
Reintubation

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Date Completed 18.08.2021

Date Revised 31.05.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1177/08850666211020281

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM326226524