Open AccessUsefulness of full outline of unresponsiveness score to predict extubation failure in intubated critically-ill patients: A pilot study
Author(s) -
Tarek Ahmed Said,
Anis Chaari,
Karim Abdel Hakim,
Dalia Hamama,
William Casey
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
international journal of critical illness and injury science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.274
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 2231-5004
pISSN - 2229-5151
DOI - 10.4103/2229-5151.195401
Subject(s) - medicine , glasgow coma scale , intubation , confidence interval , critically ill , anesthesia , coma (optics) , sofa score , physics , optics
To assess the usefulness of the full outline of unresponsiveness (FOUR) score in predicting extubation failure in critically ill intubated patients admitted with disturbed level of conscious in comparison with the Glasgow coma scale (GCS).