Prognosis of Patients Transferred From Intensive Care Units to Departments of Chest Diseases and the Factors Affecting Their Prognosis

Aim: One-third of deaths due to a critical disease occur after patients are transferred from intensive care units to hospital departments. Some of the deaths occur in patients who are considered not to need further intensive care treatment or that they are adequately stabilized or recovered according to their clinical and physiological findings. Deaths in patients transferred from intensive care units to departments might result from the incomplete recovery of the primary disease or from development of new complications. The aim of this study is to monitor the prognosis of cases who have been intubated and supported with mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit and then transferred from this unit to the chest diseases department after having been taken off mechanical ventilation, and to determine the factors affecting their prognosis