Population
coma, ICUAW
MAY, CRITICALLY ILL, COMA
All patients diagnosed with ICUAW between May 2012 and January 2015 were
considered eligible for this study. The inclusion criteria were critically ill
adult patients (age ≥ 18 years), under invasive mechanical ventilation
> 48 hours, presenting a Glasgow coma scale score of > 10 and an ICUAW
with Medical Research Council (MRC) score ≤ 48 over 60 points the day of
extubation prior to removing the artificial airway (Supplementary
material).