Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is another reason for prolonged mechanical ventilation in trauma patients.
[ 53] found that one reason for prolonged teat seeking was a short distance from the udder to the floor.
Long-term pain is also a major reason for prolonged sick leave and early retirement, thereby causing high costs for the national insurance system [ 6].
Cardiac-related failure of weaning from mechanical ventilation is an important reason for prolonged mechanical ventilation, intensive care unit treatment, and increased morbidity and mortality.
The reason for prolonged sedation and invasive mechanical ventilation therapy was multiple trauma (n = 132, 88%), severe isolated TBI (n = 16, 10.7%), and respiratory failure due to pulmonary aspiration of gastric content during the initial trauma.
Reasons for prolonging treatment time included severe acute toxicity, machine breakdown, a public holiday, and the patient's personal affairs.
A chart audit was done postoperatively to investigate reasons for prolonged stay.
From our clinical experience, delays due to medical stabilization or other necessary preoperative procedures are rarely the reasons for prolonged waiting time after admission, but information on the reason for surgical delay was not available for this study.
Multiparous women (N = 50) with prolonged birth spacing (≥ 6 years) and controls with shorter birth spacing (2 5 years) were matched for age, parity and socio-economic status, and their labour outcome, Apgar scores, operative and vaginal delivery rates, perinatal and maternal outcome, and reasons for prolonged birth spacing were compared.
