Intellectually disabled patients' intensive care admission characteristics, weaning from mechanical ventilation, and sedative drug use: a single-center retrospective case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Intellectually disabled (ID) patients present unique therapeutic challenges. We aimed to describe the characteristics of ID patients admitted to a general intensive care unit (ICU).

Results

We conducted a retrospective cohort study comparing critically ill adult ID patients to matched patients without ID (1:2 ratio) in a single ICU (2010-2020). The main outcome measure was mortality. Secondary outcomes included complications during admission and characteristics of weaning from mechanical ventilation. The study and control groups were randomly selected based on similar age and sex. ID patients nonetheless had an average APACHE score of 18.5 ± 8.7 vs. 13.4 ± 8.5 in controls (p < 0.001). ID patients had more hematological (p = 0.04), endocrinological (p < 0.001) and

SUBMITTER: Bineth N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10246319 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature