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

Helena França Correia dos Reis, Mônica Lajana Oliveira de Almeida, Mário Ferreira da Silva, Mário de Seixas Rocha

Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia · 2013 · 23 citations · 22 references

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Abstract

In patients with TBI, extubation failure appears to lengthen hospital stays; to increase the frequency of tracheostomy and of pulmonary complications; to worsen functional outcomes; and to increase mortality.

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