Ventilation Weaning Strategies and Correlation to Outcomes in Tracheostomized Patients in the Lausanne ICU

Comorbidities

Collected at ICU admission

Time frame: At ICU admission

Ventilation modalities and settings from intubation to tracheotomy

Ventilation modalities and settings recolted from electronic patient files.

Time frame: Once every day at 8am, between day after intubation to day before tracheotomy, up to 60 days

Sedation opioid use from intubation to tracheotomy

Sedation use collected from electronic patient files.

Time frame: Once every day at 8am and at time of minimal and maximal value, between day of intubation to day of tracheotomy, up to 60 days

Opioid use from intubation to tracheotomy

Opioid use collected from electronic patient files.

Time frame: Once every day at 8am and at time of minimal and maximal value, between day of intubation to day of tracheotomy, up to 60 days

Neuromuscular blocking agent use from intubation to tracheotomy

Neuromuscular blocking agent use collected from electronic patient files.

Time frame: Once every day at 8am and at time of minimal and maximal value, between day of intubation to day of tracheotomy, up to 60 days

Tracheotomy time

Collected from electronic patient files (day and hour)

Time frame: At time of tracheotomy, once, up to 60 days after intubation day

Tracheotomy type (percutaneous, surgical)

Collected from electronic patient files.

Time frame: At time of tracheotomy, once, up to 60 days after intubation day

Ventilation settings and modalities from day of tracheotomy

Collected from electronic patient files.

Time frame: 2 hours before tracheotomy

SOFA score (tracheotomy day)

Calculated from electronic patient files.

Time frame: Once, on the day of tracheotomy (worst value of the day of tracheotomy), up to 60 days after intubation day

Ventilation modalities and settings from tracheotomy to mechanical ventilation weaning

Ventilation modalities and settings collected from electronic patient files.

Time frame: Once per day, from day of tracheotomy to mechanical ventilation weaning, up to 60 days

Tracheotomy weaning strategies from tracheotomy to mechanical ventilation weaning

Data collected from electronic patient files.

Time frame: Once every day at 8am and at time of minimal and maximal value, from day of tracheotomy to day of mechanical ventilation weaning, up to 31 days

Physical therapy sessions from tracheotomy to mechanical ventilation weaning

Data collected from electronic patient files.

Time frame: Once every day at 8am and at time of minimal and maximal value, from day of tracheotomy to day of mechanical ventilation weaning, up to 31 days

Mechanical ventilation weaning day

Data collected from electronic patient files.

Time frame: Once (day 3 in a row of less than 12 hours of mechanical ventilation), up to 31 days after tracheotomy day

SOFA score (mechanical ventilation weaning day)

Calcutated from electronic patient files.

Time frame: Once (3rd consecutive day with less than 12-h of mechanical ventilation), up to 31 days after tracheotomy day

Ventilation modalities and settings from mechanical ventilation weaning day to decannulation or ICU discharge or death

Collected from electronic patient files.

Time frame: Once every day at 8am and at time of minimal and maximal value, from day of mechanical ventilation weaning to decannulation or ICU discharge or death, up to 31 days

Physical therapy sessions from mechanical ventilation weaning day to decannulation or ICU discharge or death

Collected from electronic patient files.

Time frame: Once every day at 8am and at time of minimal and maximal value, from day of mechanical ventilation weaning to decannulation or ICU discharge or death, up to 31 days

Hospital stay duration

Collected from electronic patient files and discharge letters

Time frame: Once, between day of hospital admission to day of hospital discharge, up to 2 years

Outcome and specific treatments in ICU

Data recolted from electronic patient files

Time frame: Once, between day of hospital admission to day of hospital discharge, up to 2 years

Correlation of ventilation settings and modalities and tracheotomy weaning strategies

Collected from electronic patient files and discharge letters

Time frame: Once, between day of hospital admission to day of hospital discharge, up to 2 years