Intellectually disabled patients’ intensive care admission characteristics, weaning from mechanical ventilation, and sedative drug use: a single-center retrospective case-control study
Abstract:Background
Intellectually disabled (ID) patients present unique therapeutic challenges. We aimed to describe the characteristics of ID patients admitted to a general intensive care unit (ICU).
Results
We conducted a retrospective cohort study comparing critically ill adult ID patients to matched patients without ID (1:2 ratio) in a single ICU (2010–2020). The main outcome measure was mortality. Secondary outcomes included complications during admis… Show more
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