Unscheduled extubation in children admitted to the ICU: incidence and associated factors

Abstract Objective To investigate the incidence and risk factors associated with unscheduled extubation in children admitted to the Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Units of a reference teaching hospital in Recife – PE. Methods Prospective study carried out with intubated children, between may and august 2013. A structured form was used and data were obtained from medical records and analyzed using SPSS 13.1 and Stata 12.1 software. Results An incidence of 10.9 unscheduled extubations per 100 intubated days was identified. [...]