Evaluation of airway care score as a criterion for extubation in patients admitted in neurosurgery intensive care unit

• Main Authors: Gayatri Tanwar (Author), Udeyana Singh (Author), Sandeep Kundra (Author), Ashwani K Chaudhary (Author), Sunil Kaytal (Author), Anju Grewal (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background and Aims: Early extubation in neurocritical patients has several potential benefits. Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) is a crude measure of neurologic function in these patients and a low GCS score does not necessarily mean contraindication for extubation. Data on patients with neurosurgical or n...