Parameters at discharge | Total (n = 831) | Decannulated (n = 470) | Non-decannulated (n = 361) | p-value |
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M ± SD or n (%) | M ± SD or n (%) | M ± SD or n (%) | ||
Wearing time of TC (days) | – | 64.6 ± 36.0 | – | |
Duration of ventilation (days) | 48.8 ± 33.2 | 43.6 ± 24.9 | 55.7 ± 40.6 | < 0.001 |
Duration of stay in the ERC (days) | 64.2 ± 48.1 | 63.3 ± 47.2 | 65.4 ± 49.3 | 0.547 |
Complications (existing) | 283 (33.9) | 102 (21.7) | 181 (49.9) | < 0.001 |
Number of complications | 0.5 ± 0.8 | 0.3 ± 0.6 | 0.7 ± 0.9 | < 0.001 |
Complications (type) | < 0.001 | |||
None | 550 (66.2) | 368 (78.3) | 182 (50.4) | |
Pneumonia / respiratory infect | 130 (15.6) | 47 (10.0) | 83 (23.0) | |
Other infect / sepsis | 64 (7.7) | 27 (5.7) | 37 (10.2) | |
Other | 87 (10.4) | 28 (5.9) | 59 (16.3) | |
Nutrition | < 0.001 | |||
Nasogastric tube | 28 (3.6) | 1 (0.2) | 27 (8.9) | |
PEG | 295 (38.4) | 56 (12.0) | 239 (78.9) | |
Oral diet | 446 (58.0) | 409 (87.8) | 37 (12.2) | |
CRS-R | 19.1 ± 6.3 | 21.9 ± 2.8 | 14.6 ± 7.6 | < 0.001 |
Recannulation | 24 (4.9) | 8 (1.7) | 16 (84.2) | < 0.001 |
Deceased | 62 (7.5) | 4 (0.9) | 58 (16.1) | < 0.001 |
Status at discharge | < 0.001 | |||
Domesticity | 90 (10.8) | 70 (14.9) | 20 (5.5) | |
Further rehabilitation | 268 (32.3) | 264 (56.2) | 4 (1.1) | |
Nursing home | 260 (31.3) | 87 (18.5) | 173 (47.9) | |
Relocation to the ICU | 102 (12.3) | 31 (6.6) | 71 (19.7) | |
Other | 49 (5.9) | 14 (3.0) | 35 (9.7) | |
Death | 62 (7.5) | 4 (0.9) | 58 (16.1) |