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Table 3 Emergency Department and Hospital Discharge Destinations

From: Emergency department length of stay for patients requiring mechanical ventilation: a prospective observational study

Discharge Destinations

MV only (n = 484)

NIV only (n = 118)

Both (n = 16)

From the ED

   

Intensive care unit

327 (67.6)

20 (17.0)

9 (56.3)

Operating room

45 (9.3)

Death

33 (8.8)

5 (4.2)

3 (18.8)

Other hospital

33 (6.8)

1 (6.3)

General floora

17 (3.9)

67 (56.8)

2 (12.5)

Coronary care/high dependency unit

18 (3.5)

22 (18.6)

1 (6.3)

Homea

11 (2.3)

4 (3.4)

From the hospital

(n = 406)

(n = 109)

(n = 12)

Home

160 (39.4)

63 (57.8)

6 (50.0)

Death

146 (36.0)

29 (26.6)

5 (41.7)

Other acute care hospital

38 (9.4)

7 (6.4)

Rehabilitation

35 (8.6)

2 (1.8)

1 (8.3)

Long term care facility

21 (5.2)

4 (3.7)

Not available

6 (1.5)

4 (3.7)

  1. MV = mechanical ventilation (invasive), NIV = non-invasive ventilation, ED = emergency department.
  2. aOf the 27 patients discharge to the floor or home, the 3 main indications for ventilation were overdose (12, 44.4%), trauma (8, 29.6%) and cardiac arrest (3, 11.1%).