Patient age, sex, APACHE score, diagnosis, worst FiO2 prior to weaning, duration of ventilation prior to weaning, duration of weaning attempt, need for tracheostomy and duration of stay were collected.
Logistic regression demonstrated that the worst FiO2 prior to weaning and the duration of ventilation prior to weaning were both significantly associated with an unsuccessful SC weaning attempt (P = 0.002 and P = 0.005, respectively).
SC proved most successful in those patients who had a lower worst FiO2 prior to weaning and a lower duration of ventilation prior to commencing weaning.
By then I knew that my worst fears prior to arriving in CAR were about to come true.
I was actually quite relieved to end up in the snow instead of sailing over a cliff like a villain in a Bond film - my worst fear prior to the trip.
At worst, in a prior era, his op-ed might have been considered boilerplate post-national-tragedy pablum.
City 40 residents have been casualties in a number of nuclear incidents, including the 1957 Kyshtym disaster – the world's worst nuclear accident prior to Chernobyl – which the Soviet authorities kept a well-guarded secret from the outside world.
While berthed in the Philadelphia Naval Yard, an electrical fire damaged the ship and left her as the Iowa-class battleship in the worst material condition prior to her 1980s reactivation.
III Worst case: no prior knowledge and therefore only a random guess of parameters is available.
