Terminal weaning or immediate extubation for withdrawing mechanical ventilation in critically ill patients (the ARREVE observational study)
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Terminal weaning or immediate extubation for withdrawing mechanical ventilation in critically ill patients (the ARREVE observational study)
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Correction to: Terminal weaning or immediate extubation for withdrawing mechanical ventilation in critically ill patients (the ARREVE observational study).Intensive Care Med. 2017 Dec;43(12):1942-1943. doi: 10.1007/s00134-017-4999-2. Intensive Care Med. 2017. PMID: 29178042
Abstract
Purpose: The relative merits of immediate extubation versus terminal weaning for mechanical ventilation withdrawal are controversial, particularly regarding the experience of patients and relatives.
Methods: This prospective observational multicentre study (ARREVE) was done in 43 French ICUs to compare terminal weaning and immediate extubation, as chosen by the ICU team. Terminal weaning was a gradual decrease in the amount of ventilatory assistance and immediate extubation was extubation without any previous decrease in ventilatory assistance. The primary outcome was posttraumatic stress symptoms (Impact of Event Scale Revised, IES-R) in relatives 3 months after the death. Secondary outcomes were complicated grief, anxiety, and depression symptoms in relatives; comfort of patients during the dying process; and job strain in staff.
Results: We enrolled 212 (85.5%) relatives of 248 patients with terminal weaning and 190 relatives (90.5%) of 210 patients with immediate extubation. Immediate extubation was associated with airway obstruction and a higher mean Behavioural Pain Scale score compared to terminal weaning. In relatives, IES-R scores after 3 months were not significantly different between groups (31.9 ± 18.1 versus 30.5 ± 16.2, respectively; adjusted difference, -1.9; 95% confidence interval, -5.9 to 2.1; p = 0.36); neither were there any differences in complicated grief, anxiety, or depression scores. Assistant nurses had lower job strain scores in the immediate extubation group.
Conclusions: Compared to terminal weaning, immediate extubation was not associated with differences in psychological welfare of relatives when each method constituted standard practice in the ICU where it was applied. Patients had more airway obstruction and gasps with immediate extubation.
Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01818895.
Keywords: Critical care; Ethics; Immediate extubation; Mechanical ventilation; Terminal weaning; Treatment limitation.
Comment in
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Life after death in the ICU: detecting family-centered outcomes remains difficult.Intensive Care Med. 2017 Oct;43(10):1529-1531. doi: 10.1007/s00134-017-4898-6. Epub 2017 Sep 22. Intensive Care Med. 2017. PMID: 28936617 No abstract available.
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[Immediate extubation or terminal weaning in ventilated intensive care patients after therapeutic goal change].Med Klin Intensivmed Notfmed. 2018 Apr;113(3):221-226. doi: 10.1007/s00063-017-0382-x. Epub 2017 Nov 16. Med Klin Intensivmed Notfmed. 2018. PMID: 29147728 German. No abstract available.
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Discussion on Terminal weaning or immediate extubation for withdrawing mechanical ventilation in critically ill patients (the ARREVE observational study).Intensive Care Med. 2018 Feb;44(2):275-276. doi: 10.1007/s00134-017-5037-0. Epub 2017 Dec 29. Intensive Care Med. 2018. PMID: 29285585 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
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Reply: Discussion on Terminal weaning or immediate extubation for withdrawing mechanical ventilation in critically ill patients (the ARREVE observational study).Intensive Care Med. 2018 Feb;44(2):275-276. doi: 10.1007/s00134-017-5037-0. Epub 2017 Dec 29. Intensive Care Med. 2018. PMID: 29481014 No abstract available.
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