… In the long term, such complications increase morbidity and can lead to prolonged ICU and
hospital length of stay and prolonged recovery among survivors of critical illness. However, …

… has been linked to prolonged hospital and intensive … longer period of time for dysphagia
assessment after extubation may have allowed inclusion of patients with higher acuity of critical …

… of post-extubation dysphagia on long-term clinical outcomes in affected critically ill patients.
… at ICU discharge and more than 60% of affected patients have dysphagia at hospital …

… Patients with PED after a prolonged duration of intubation stayed just over twice as long in
the hospital and the ICU (Table 3). Prolonged intubation was also associated with increased …

… critical illness due to advances in critical care medicine, interest in long-term physical function
in survivors after critical … was significantly associated with mobility at hospital discharge, …

… SLT initiation post-extubation was associated with dysphagia or death at hospital discharge
(… A recent prospective study found that larger endotracheal tube size induced post-extubation …

… screening tools as well as systematic screening for dysphagia in survivors of critical illness
… Patients with dysphagia in this study stayed three times longer in the ICU and hospital and …

… Management of post extubation dysphagia: prevention of the hospitalacquired … Postextubation
dysphagia is associated with longer hospitalization in survivors of critical illness with …

… -risk populations, such as survivors of the acute respiratory distress syndrome (… in hospitalized
patients are limited (especially with regard to critically ill patients on the ICU), we extended …

… with poor patient outcomes including pneumonia, hospital … participants in this study were
critically ill and it was unsafe to … until 24 h or longer post-extubation based on the assumption …