Differences in Early- and Late-Onset Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Between Surgical and Trauma Patients in a Combined Surgical or Trauma Intensive Care Unit

Abstract

Although there is a trend toward worse outcome in nontrauma patients with late-onset VAP, trauma patients with late- and early-onset VAP behave similarly. On a per case basis, trauma patients have significantly better outcomes than nontrauma surgical patients with VAP when cared for within the same surgical or trauma intensive care unit.