Unplanned extubations (UEs) in injured patients are potentially fatal, but etiology and patient characteristics are not well described. We have been prospectively characterizing the etiology of UEs after we identified a high rate of UEs and implemented an educational program to address it. This period of monitoring included the years of the COVID-19 pandemic that produced high rates of workforce turnover in many hospitals, dramatically affecting nursing and respiratory therapy services. We hypothesized that frequency of UEs would depend on the etiology and that the workforce changes produced by the COVID-19 pandemic would increase UEs.

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创伤患者意外拔管病因的十年分析，包括新冠疫情的影响。

受伤患者的意外拔管（UE）可能是致命的，但病因和患者特征尚未得到很好的描述。在我们确定了较高的 UE 发生率并实施了教育计划来解决这一问题后，我们一直在前瞻性地描述 UE 的病因学。这一监测期包括了 COVID-19 大流行期间，许多医院的劳动力流动率很高，极大地影响了护理和呼吸治疗服务。我们假设 UE 的频率取决于病因，并且 COVID-19 大流行造成的劳动力变化会增加 UE 的数量。