Daniele Roberto Giacobbe, Denise Battaglini, Elisa Martina Enrile, Chiara Dentone, Antonio Vena, Chiara Robba, Lorenzo Ball, Michele Bartoletti, Irene Coloretti, Stefano Di Bella, Antonio Di Biagio, Iole Brunetti, Malgorzata Mikulska, Novella Carannante, Andrea De Maria, Laura Magnasco, Alberto Enrico Maraolo, Michele Mirabella, Giorgia Montrucchio, Nicolò Patroniti, Lucia Taramasso, Giusy Tiseo, Giacomo Fornaro, Fiorentino Fraganza, Luca Monastra, Erik Roman-Pognuz, Giacomo Paluzzano, Giuseppe Fiorentino, Antonio Corcione, Linda Bussini, Renato Pascale, Silvia Corcione, Tommaso Tonetti, Matteo Rinaldi, Marco Falcone, Emanuela Biagioni, Vito Marco Ranieri, Maddalena Giannella, Francesco Giuseppe De Rosa, Massimo Girardis, Francesco Menichetti, Pierluigi Viale, Paolo Pelosi, Matteo Bassetti
The primary objective of this multicenter, observational, retrospective study was to assess the incidence rate of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients in intensive care units (ICU). The secondary objective was to assess predictors of 30-day case-fatality of VAP. From 15 February to 15 May 2020, 586 COVID-19 patients were admitted to the participating ICU. Of them, 171 developed VAP (29%) and were included in the study. The incidence rate of VAP was of 18 events per 1000 ventilator days (95% confidence intervals [CI] 16-21)...
February 3, 2021: Journal of Clinical Medicine