Giorgia Montrucchio, Eleonora Balzani, Gabriele Sales, Anna Vaninetti, Francesca Grillo, Anna Chiara Trompeo, Marinella Zanierato, Vito Fanelli, Silvia Corcione, Francesco Giuseppe De Rosa, Antonio Curtoni, Cristina Costa, Luca Brazzi
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) among critically ill patients. However, a comparison of VAP incidence in COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 cohorts, particularly in a context with a high prevalence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) organisms, is lacking. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We conducted a single-center, mixed prospective and retrospective cohort study comparing COVID-19 patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of the "Città della Salute e della Scienza" University Hospital in Turin, Italy, between March 2020 and December 2021 (COVID-19 group), with a historical cohort of ICU patients admitted between June 2016 and March 2018 (NON-COVID-19 group)...
April 18, 2024: Respiratory Research