Self/unplanned extubation: safety, surveillance, and monitoring of the mechanically ventilated patient.

Crit Care Nurs Clin North Am

Weinberg Intensive Care Unit, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 401 North Broadway: Wbg 3A, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA.

Published: September 2012

The purpose of this article is to provide an appreciation for a significant risk to quality of care affecting patients receiving mechanical ventilation: unplanned extubation. A summary of the current literature provides evidence-based recommendations for how to minimize this potentially dangerous complication. In addition, recommendations for proceeding after unplanned extubation are made.

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