A study on outcomes of ventilator associated pneumonia in children in a tertiary care hospital
Journal Title: Medpulse International Journal of Pediatrics - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 3
Abstract
Basing the diagnosis of VAP on new or changing Pulmonary infiltrate on CXR and one clinical feature of hospital acquired pneumonia has a good sensitivity but poor specificity. Increasing the number or criteria required increases the ability to distinguish hospital acquired pneumonia from other entities that mimic pneumonia clinically. All patients on mechanical ventilator admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit during the prescribed study period were considered for case identification and study was prospective study. Mortality in present study was 41(27.3%), with almost similar number male and female patients. In our study mean duration hospital stay was 13 days in patients with VAP as compared to 10 days in non VAP group patients. This shows VAP patients had significantly prolonged length of hospital stay as showed in other pediatric studies
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Shashikant 1, Manoj G M
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