Respiratory failure & ventilation
Impact and Feasibility of Mechanical Ventilation at a Surgical Center in Sierra Leone: Experience From EMERGENCY’s Hospital in Goderich*
Authors' conclusion
In our experience, the consistent benefit of reduced mortality among critical patients largely outweighs the associated challenges.
Study context
- Population
- Critical patients consecutively admitted to the surgical ICU of EMERGENCY's hospital in Goderich, Freetown, Sierra Leone, October 2022–May 2023162 analysed
- Participants
- 195 participants
- Exposure
- Mechanical ventilation (MV) vs Overall population
- MVn = 26
- Overall populationn = 162reference
- Outcome
- Mortality
Methodological detailssingle-centre, consecutive patients
- Single-centre
- Consecutive patients
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
- Time on MV
- 24 · median · range 12–64 · hours
Cause of admission among MV patients
- Trauma
- 88.5%
- Acute abdomen
- 11.5%
Safety
- Potentially life-threatening tube obstruction, handled appropriately
- 1
Original publication
Impact and Feasibility of Mechanical Ventilation at a Surgical Center in Sierra Leone: Experience From EMERGENCY’s Hospital in Goderich*. Crit Care Med. Published 15 April 2024. doi:10.
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