Open AccessPrayer sign as a marker of increased ventilatory hours, length of intensive care unit and hospital stay in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting surgery
Author(s) -
Tanveer Singh Kundra,
Parminder Kaur,
N Manjunatha
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
annals of cardiac anaesthesia/annals of cardiac anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.42
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 0974-5181
pISSN - 0971-9784
DOI - 10.4103/0971-9784.197843
Subject(s) - medicine , intensive care unit , artery , bypass grafting , prospective cohort study , intensive care , cardiac surgery , anesthesia , surgery , cardiology , intensive care medicine
Various predictors have been used to predict diabetic patients who are likely to have increased ventilatory hours and an increased length of stay (LOS) in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) as well as in the hospital after undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery, for example, glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c). The authors propose a simple bed-side test, i.e., the prayer sign to predict increased ventilatory hours and increased length of ICU and hospital stay.