Increased Incidence of Ventilator-Acquired Pneumonia in Coronavirus Disease 2019 Patients: A Multicentric Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Little is known about the epidemiology of ventilator-acquired pneumonia among coronavirus disease 2019 patients such as incidence or etiological agents. Some studies suggest a higher risk of ventilator-associated pneumonia in this specific population.

Design

Cohort exposed/nonexposed study among the REA-REZO surveillance network.

Setting

Multicentric; ICUs in France.

Patients

The coronavirus disease 2019 patients at admission were matched on the age, sex, center of inclusion, presence of antimicrobial therapy at admission, patient provenance, time from ICU admission to mechanical ventilation, and Simplified Acute Physiology Score II at admission to the patients included between 2016 and 2019 within the same surveillance network (1:1).

Intervention

SUBMITTER: Vacheron CH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8855761 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature