Development of a risk score to predict extubation failure in patients with traumatic brain injury.

Purpose: To identify predictors and develop a risk score for the prediction of extubation failure in TBI patients.

Materials And Methods: We prospectively evaluated 311 TBI adults receiving mechanical ventilation for >48h in the intensive care unit. Epidemiological, ventilatory, airway protective, laboratory, and hemodynamic predictors were evaluated.

Association between the rapid shallow breathing index and extubation success in patients with traumatic brain injury.

Objective: To investigate the association between the rapid shallow breathing index and successful extubation in patients with traumatic brain injury.

Methods: This study was a prospective study conducted in patients with traumatic brain injury of both genders who underwent mechanical ventilation for at least two days and who passed a spontaneous breathing trial. The minute volume and respiratory rate were measured using a ventilometer, and the data were used to calculate the rapid shallow breathing index (respiratory rate/tidal volume).

Extubation failure influences clinical and functional outcomes in patients with traumatic brain injury.

Objective: To evaluate the association between extubation failure and outcomes (clinical and functional) in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Methods: A prospective cohort study involving 311 consecutive patients with TBI. The patients were divided into two groups according to extubation outcome: extubation success; and extubation failure (defined as reintubation within 48 h after extubation).