OUT-OF-OR UNPLANNED INTUBATION W/IN 30 DAYS (42)    PERIOPERATIVE OCCURRENCE CATEGORY (136.5)

VASQIP Definition (2015):
Patient required unplanned placement of an endotracheal tube or other
similar breathing tube out of the operating room for ventilator support 
within 30 days following surgery regardless of cause. This definition
includes:
  1) patients re-intubated out of the operating room following planned 
     extubation and
  2) patients who self-extubate out of the operating room and were not 
     immediately re-intubated.