ObjectivesTo analyze patients after cardiac surgery that needed endotracheal
reintubation and identify factors associated with death and its relation
with the severity scores.MethodsRetrospective analysis of information of 1,640 patients in the postoperative
period of cardiac surgery between 2007 and 2015.ResultsThe reintubation rate was 7.26%. Of those who were reintubated, 36 (30.3%)
underwent coronary artery bypass surgery, 27 (22.7%) underwent valve
replacement, 25 (21.0%) underwent correction of an aneurysm, and 8 (6.7%)
underwent a heart transplant. Among those with comorbidities, 54 (51.9%)
were hypertensive, 22 (21.2%) were diabetic, and 10 (9.6%) had lung
diseases. Among those who had complications, 61 (52.6%) had pneumonia, 50
(42.4%) developed renal failure, and 49 (51.0%) had a moderate form of the
transient disturbance of gas exchange. Noninvasive ventilation was performed
in 53 (44.5%) patients. The death rate was 40.3%, and mortality was higher
in the group that did not receive noninvasive ventilation before
reintubation (53.5%). Within the reintubated patients who died, the SOFA and
APACHE II values were 7.9 ± 3.0 and 16.9 ± 4.5, respectively.
Most of the reintubated patients (47.5%) belonged to the high-risk group,
EuroSCORE (> 6 points).ConclusionThe reintubation rate was high, and it was related to worse SOFA, APACHE II
and EuroSCORE scores. Mortality was higher in the group that did not receive
noninvasive ventilation before reintubation.