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Title: | ICU pneumonias: A multi-institutional study | Authors: | Ruiz-Santana, S. Jimenez, A. G. Esteban, A. Guerra, L. Alvarez, B. Corcia, S. Gudin, J. Martinez, A. Quintana, E. Armengol, S. Gregori, J. Arenzana, A. Rosado, L. Sanmartin, A. |
UNESCO Clasification: | 32 Ciencias médicas 320508 Enfermedades pulmonares |
Keywords: | Pneumonia Intensive Care Unit |
Issue Date: | 1987 | Journal: | Critical Care Medicine | Abstract: | We conducted a prospective multi-institutional study of nosocomial and community-acquired pneumonias in 1378 patients admitted to the ICUs of six hospitals. We also investigated 1005 of these patients who were intubated and mechanically ventilated for a reason other than pneumonia, the risk of developing pneumonia, and the relationship between the incidence of pneumonia and the length of time during which the patients were mechanically ventilated. A bacteriologic diagnosis was made in 38% of the nosocomial and 21% of the community-acquired pneumonias. The total mortality rate was 40%; 47% of the patients with nosocomial and 17% of the patients with community-acquired pneumonias died. Because it was difficult to make an etiologic diagnosis in two-thirds of the cases, the treatment had to be based on an assumed causative organism. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10553/45980 | ISSN: | 0090-3493 | DOI: | 10.1097/00003246-198710000-00007 | Source: | Critical Care Medicine [ISSN 0090-3493],v. 15, p. 930-932 |
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