Ventilator-associated Pneumonia Risk Factors in Patients with Severe COVID-19

sciencedirect.com August 20, 2024

Patients with COVID-19 are at high risk of VAP, which may be related to issues other than prolonged mechanical ventilation (MV) time.

Multiple factors increase the chances of these patients developing VAP, including: work overload in health institutions, the prone position, prolonged ICU time, the need for infusion of multiple drugs, use of invasive devices and immobility in bed.

Ventilator-associated Pneumonia (VAP) occurrence leads to increased mortality, and requires strict compliance with infection control and prevention measures.

This is a multicenter, retrospective cohort study which included patients ≥18 years old, diagnosed with COVID-19, admitted to intensive care units (ICU) and who received invasive mechanical ventilation (MV) for >2 consecutive days.

The associations between the variables were initially tested, and those that showed potential associations (p<0.05) were included in the multivariate logistic regression model.