An Observational Veneto Research on Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (OVeRVAP): attributable mortality and cumulative incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia - Concepedia

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An Observational Veneto Research on Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (OVeRVAP): attributable mortality and cumulative incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia

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2018

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Armando Olivieri, Daniele Del Monte, Luca Benacchio, Daniele Bonvicini, Marco Baiocchi, Camilla Allegri, Luana Fornasier, Alessandra Carlot, Ioannis Psimadas, Alfeo Bonato,

Minerva Anestesiologica

Abstract

In 8.4% of cases, VAP was the leading cause of death in our study. This indicates that the patients died more frequently with VAP rather than because of it.