Bacterial Burden in Critically Injured Ventilated Patients Does Not Correlate with Progression to Pneumonia | Zendy

Bradley M. Dennis | Zendy; Richard Betzold | Zendy; Daryl Patton | Zendy; Herbert A. Hopper | Zendy; Judith M. Jenkins | Zendy; Chris Fonnesbeck | Zendy; Wonder P. Drake | Zendy; Addison K. May | Zendy

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Bacterial Burden in Critically Injured Ventilated Patients Does Not Correlate with Progression to Pneumonia

Author(s) -

Bradley M. Dennis,

Richard Betzold,

Daryl Patton,

Herbert A. Hopper,

Judith M. Jenkins,

Chris Fonnesbeck,

Wonder P. Drake,

Addison K. May

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

surgical infections

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.773

H-Index - 60

eISSN - 1557-8674

pISSN - 1096-2964

DOI - 10.1089/sur.2017.199

Subject(s) - medicine , intensive care medicine , pneumonia , critically ill , ventilator associated pneumonia , mechanical ventilation , critical illness , intensive care unit

Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is common in critically injured patients. The pathogenesis of VAP is not completely understood. We hypothesized that mechanically ventilated trauma patients who develop pneumonia have a progressive increase in pathogen burden over the course of ventilation until a threshold for symptomatic pneumonia is reached, leading to clinical suspicion of VAP.

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