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Article: Recent studies by J. Hortal and co-authors add new data to heart surgery findings.(Clinical report)
- Article from:
- Heart Disease Weekly
- Article date:
- November 15, 2009
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According to recent research from Madrid, Spain, "Major heart surgery (MHS) patients are a particularly high-risk population for nosocomial infections. Our objective was to identify risk factors for ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in patients undergoing MHS."
"Prospective study including 1,844 patients operated from 2003 to 2006. Overall 106 patients (140 episodes) developed one or more episodes of VAP (5.7%, 22.2 episodes per 1,000 days of mechanical ventilation). VAP incidence was 45.9% in those patients requiring more than 48 h of MV. Enterobacteriaceae (32.8), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (28.6%) and Staphylococcus aureus (27.1%, of which 65.8% were ...