Research Article

Hypercapnic Ventilatory Response in the Weaning of Patients with Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation

Table 3

Multivariate analysis of possible factors with weaning success.

FactorOR95% CI value

Age0.9070.808–1.018.097
Ventilation-use days till drive test0.7950.637–0.993.043
Maximal inspiratory pressure1.0420.968–1.122.273
0.1140.000–106.656.534
6676.0780.008–5.48E + 009.205

Ventilation-use days till drive test: the duration time from the first day of mechanical ventilation use to the day of hypercapnic challenge test; denotes statistical significance with .