Incidence, risk factors, clinico-microbiological profile, change in ventilator settings needed and outcome of 135 ventilator associated pneumonia cases in pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) of a tertiary care centre in Eastern India

• Auteurs principaux: Manonita Manjhi (Auteur), Suman Das (Auteur), Moukoli Pal (Auteur), Indraneel Saha (Auteur), Srinath Reddy A. (Auteur)
• Format: Livre
• Publié: Hygeia Press di Corridori Marinella, 2018-02-01T00:00:00Z.
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Introduction: Ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) is the second most common nosocomial infection diagnosed in mechanically ventilated patients with incidence of 20-36%, mainly caused by Gram-negative organisms in our country. Decrease in PaO2/FIO2 (arterial oxygen tension/fractional inspired oxyge...