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Risk Factors for Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in Surgical Intensive-Care–Unit Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Consuelo M. Beck-Sague ,
Ronda L. Sinkowitz ,
Raymond Y. Chinn ,
Judy Vargo ,
Wendy Kaler  and
William R. Jarvis
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Abstract

Patients admitted during the study period to the Sharp Memorial Hospital intensive-care units who required mechanical ventilation were followed prospectively; 15 (10.4%) of 145 acquired ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). Duration of prior oral or nasal intubation and H2 receptor antagonists use were longer among patients who developed VAP than among those who did not. Prior cefazolin use was associated with a higher rate of VAP (11 of 63 [17%] versus 4 of 82 [5%], P=.01).

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 17 , Issue 6 , June 1996 , pp. 374 - 376
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1996

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