The outcome of mechanical ventilation: report of a five year study.
In the five years 1979-1983, 486 patients were treated by mechanical ventilation in the Intensive Care Unit of a District General Hospital. Of these 43.6% died in the Unit and a further 8.9% died after discharge to the general wards. Sepsis was a major complication in 28% of patients. Renal failure was almost always a fatal complication. Of patients who had a cardiac arrest 80% died. At the end of one year 17.2% of patients had returned to their previously normal life.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003422:Critical Care; D004739:England; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D008875:Middle Aged; D012121:Respiration, Artificial / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000401:mortality*