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Table 2 Description of extubation failure rates and in-intensive care unit (ICU) mortality in brain-injured patients

From: Respiratory Management in Patients with Severe Brain Injury

First author [ref]

Number of patients with brain injury

Baseline GCS

GCS at extubation

Extubation failure rate (%)

In-ICU mortality rate (%)

Navalesi [26] (intervention/control groups)

165/153

9.4 ± 1.9/9.3 ± 1.9

10.6 ± 0.7/10.5 ± 0.9

5/12

1/4

Qureshi [32]

69

Unknown

Unknown

67

39

Reis [35] (success/failure groups)

311

9.7 ± 4.4

Unknown

13.8

3/14

Coplin [6]

136

Unknown

Unknown

17.4

16.1

Namen [21] (intervention/control groups)

100

Unknown

8.3 ± 2.6

38

41/31

Karanjia [36]

1265

Unknown

11 ± 3

6.1

Unknown

Wendell [37] (success/failure groups)

37

11 (8–14)/11.5 (7–14)

13 (9–14)/10.5 (8–14)

21

8/20

Godet [11] (success/failure groups)

140

8 (5–11)/6 (4–9)

9 (8–10)/9 (7–10)

31

1/19

McCredie [12] (success/failure groups)

192

7 (4–9)/7(6–9)

9(8–10)/9(8–10)

21

1/13

Asehnoune [10] (success/failure groups)

437

7(5–10)/7(3–10)

11 (10–14)/11 (9–13)

22.6

1.2/11.1

  1. GCS Glasgow Coma Scale expressed as mean (±standard deviation) or median (interquartile) accordingly. In-ICU mortality is displayed for the entire cohort or according to the extubation success/failure group and the intervention/control group whenever appropriate