Pattern of Admitted Cases in Respiratory Intensive Care Unit at Assiut University Hospitals

Exclusion Criteria

• •Patients who are generally not appropriate for respiratory ICU admission:
• •1. Irreversible brain damage
• •2. End stage cardiac, respiratory and liver disease with no options for transplant
• •3. Metastatic cancer unresponsive to chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy
• •4. Patients with non-traumatic coma leading to a persistent vegetative state (7,8,9,10)