Prognosis of Patients with Tracheal Intubation in the Emergency Department

Golezari, Ali Sarbazi; Namdar, Peyman; Yousefian, Shiva; Mirzadeh, Monirsadat; Farnood, Afsaneh; Modirian, Ehsan

Background Intubation of critically ill patients is one of the increasing emergency procedures. we designed this study to determine age and sex-related mortality rates after emergency intubation. Methods This retrospective study collected and analyzed non-trauma intubated patients in a referral hospital from the years 2017 to 2019 and before the appearance of COVID-19. Patients who were intubated outside of emergency by EMS technicians were excluded. We recorded data of intubated patients, like sex, age, length of being intubated and final diagnosis. P values of less than 0.05 were significant. Results Data of 520 non-trauma intubated patients were collected and analyzed. More than 64% of the patients were over 65 years old and had a higher mortality rate (86.7%; P<0.001) than younger patients. The overall in-hospital mortality rate was 80%. More than three quarters of the decedents died within a week of intubation (P<0.001). There was no significant relationship between sex and mortality rate (P=0.535). Conclusion Our data showed that with increased age there was a decrease in the chance of being extubated.