Open AccessFrequency of hospital acquired Pneumonia and its microbiological etiology in Intensive care unit.
Author(s) -
Muhammad Imran,
Amjad Alina,
Fakhir Haidri
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
pakistan journal of medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1682-024X
pISSN - 1681-715X
DOI - 10.12669/pjms.324.8942
Subject(s) - medicine , stenotrophomonas maltophilia , acinetobacter , pseudomonas aeruginosa , pneumonia , intensive care unit , etiology , acinetobacter baumannii , candida albicans , intensive care , intensive care medicine , microbiology and biotechnology , antibiotics , bacteria , genetics , biology
The objectives were to assess the frequency of hospital acquired pneumonia (HAP) in patients admitted to intensive care unit (ICU) and to determine the frequencies of different etiological organisms in these patients.