英文摘要 |
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact factors and the critical determinants of early extubation for patients after coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Convenient sampling was conducted in a 10 months period to recruit subjects from a medical center at Taipei city. Cases were assigned to developing group or validating group according to their time of admission (the first 5 months vs. the second 5 months). Data were collected from chart review and clinical observations. The major statistical procedures applied to process the data were : independent-t, χ2, and stepwise multiple regression. In evaluating the predictive power of critical determinants, sensitivity, specificity, predictive (+), predictive (-), and overall correct rates were examined. There were 110 subjects in developing group and 79 subjects in validating group. The impact factors of early extubation generated from developing group were: cardiac functions, stability of hemodynamics, blood loss, conscious level, and recovery of muscle strength. The critical determinants were: bleeding amount, inotropic equivalent, and recovery of muscle strength. They explain 22% of the variances of extubation time. Same impact factors and critical determinants were found in exam data obtained from validating group. The critical determinants explain 55% of the variance of the extubation time in validating group. The predictive power of these critical determinants in the validating group were: sensitivity, 100%; specificity, 42%; predictive(+), 73%; predictive(-), 100%; and overall correct rate, 77%. By applying the critical determinants to making decision of extubation, an early extubation within 10 hours of ICU admission can be achieved with less invasive assessments. Since data of this study were obtained from CABG patients, the application of these critical determinants to patients after other cardiac surgeries required further investigation. |