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Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics of patients who were successfully liberated (SL) and not successfully liberated (NSL)

From: Effects of hyperbaric oxygen combined cabin ventilator on critically ill patients with liberation difficulty after tracheostomy

Characteristics

Study group

p

NSL (n = 28)

SL (n = 72)

Gender

 Male

17 (60.7%)

48 (66.7%)

0.643

 Female

11 (39.3%)

24 (33.3%)

Age (years)

73.5 ± 9.4

71.2 ± 8.8

0.118

Mechanical ventilation duration (day)

15.3 ± 4.6

14.8 ± 5.1

0.336

Primary disease

 Hypoxic–ischemic encephalopathy

8 (28.6%)

10 (13.9%)

0.355

 Respiratory failure

9 (32.2%)

16 (22.2%)

 Cerebral trauma

4 (14.3%)

14 (19.4%)

 Cerebral hemorrhage

3 (10.7%)

13 (18.1%)

 Carbon monoxide poisoning

2 (7.1%)

8 (11.1%)

 Spinal cord injury

2 (7.1%)

11 (15.3%)

Number of invasive ventilators in hyperbaric oxygen combined cabin

 1–5

6 (21.4%)

38 (52.8%)

0.029

 6–10

8 (28.6%)

16 (22.2%)

 11–20

10 (35.7%)

14 (19.4%)

  > 20

4 (14.3%)

4 (5.6%)

  1. Values were expressed as n (percentage, %) or mean ± SD. p values for each group were derived from Mann–Whitney test. Chi-square test or Fisher’s exact test was used for assessing distribution of observations or phenomena between two groups