Early Tracheostomy Is Associated With Shorter Ventilation Time and Duration of ICU Stay in Patients With Myasthenic Crisis-A Multicenter Analysis.
Klemens AngstwurmAmelie VidalHenning StetefeldChristian DohmenPhilipp MergenthalerSiegfried KohlerSilvia SchönenbergerJulian BöselUrsula NeumannDe-Hyung LeeStefan T GernerHagen B HuttnerAndrea ThiemeJuliane DunkelChristian RothHauke SchneiderEik SchimmelHeinz ReichmannHannah FuhrerBenjamin BergerIngo KleiterChristiane Schneider-GoldAnke AlbertyJan ZinkeBerthold SchalkeAndreas SteinbrecherAndreas MeiselBernhard NeumannPublished in: Journal of intensive care medicine (2020)
Half of the ventilated patients with MC required a tracheostomy. Poorer health condition before the crisis and late-onset MG were associated with a tracheostomy. An early tracheostomy (≤ day 10), however, was associated with a shorter duration of MV and ICU-LOS by 2 weeks.