Open AccessIncidence and Operative Factors Associated With Discretional Postoperative Mechanical Ventilation After General Surgery
Author(s) -
Juliet J. Ray,
Meredith Degnan,
Krishnamurti A. Rao,
Jonathan P. Meizoso,
Charles A. Karcutskie,
Danielle Bodzin Horn,
Luis Rodriguez,
Richard P. Dutton,
Carl I. Schulman,
Roman Dudaryk
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
anesthesia and analgesia/anesthesia and analgesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.404
H-Index - 201
eISSN - 1526-7598
pISSN - 0003-2999
DOI - 10.1213/ane.0000000000002533
Subject(s) - medicine , mechanical ventilation , interquartile range , intensive care unit , anesthesia , incidence (geometry) , surgery , ventilation (architecture) , medical record , intensive care medicine , physics , optics , engineering , mechanical engineering
Mechanical ventilation after general surgery is associated with worse outcomes, prolonged hospital stay, and increased health care cost. Postoperatively, patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) may be categorized into 1 of 3 groups: extubated patients (EXT), patients with objective medical indications to remain ventilated (MED), and patients not meeting these criteria, called "discretional postoperative mechanical ventilation" (DPMV). The objectives of this study were to determine the incidence of DPMV in general surgery patients and identify the associated operative factors.