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  • Critical Care Medicine
  • Speech-Language Pathology

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  • Predicting safe extubation in acute stroke patients is clinically challenging.
  • Traditional respiratory weaning criteria are unreliable for this population.
  • Postextubation dysphagia is a significant concern, necessitating airway safety assessments.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare clinical and instrumental swallowing examination tools for assessing extubation readiness.
  • To develop and validate a simple scoring system, the Determine Extubation Failure in Severe Stroke score, for guiding extubation decisions.

Main Methods:

  • Prospective observational study of 133 orally intubated acute stroke patients.
  • Assessment of classical extubation criteria, airway score, oral motor function, 3-ounce water swallow test, and fiberoptic endoscopic dysphagia severity scoring.
  • Development of a predictive score based on independent predictors of extubation failure.

Main Results:

  • Patients with extubation failure (24.1%) showed worse swallowing assessment scores (P<0.001).
  • Fiberoptic endoscopic dysphagia severity scoring independently predicted extubation failure (aOR 4.2, P<0.007), with optimal cutoff ≥5.
  • The 4-item Determine Extubation Failure in Severe Stroke score demonstrated excellent discrimination (AUC 0.89) with an ideal cutoff ≥4.

Conclusions:

  • Postextubation dysphagia severity strongly correlates with extubation failure risk in stroke patients.
  • Fiberoptic endoscopic examination predicts reintubation need but requires a trial.
  • The Determine Extubation Failure In Severe Stroke score offers a practical tool for clinical decision-making in critically ill stroke patients.