Ventilator associated pneumonia in a ICU of a tertiary care Hospital in India

Abstract

Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP) refers to a type of pneumonia that occurs more than 48–72 hours after endotracheal intubation. Risk factors include prolonged mechanical ventilation, reintubation after extubation. Our aim was to find the incidence of VAP, total days of mechanical ventilation, days of ICU and hospital stay at our institution, proportion of various bacterial pathogens isolated from tracheal aspirate of patients with VAP and their antibiotic sensitivity pattern.