National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) are at risk, not only due to their critical illness but also from secondary processes such as nosocomial infections. Pneumonia is known to be the most common nosocomial infection among patients in ICUs. Rates of pneumonia are considerably higher among hospitalized patients, and the risk of developing pneumonia is 3-10 folds higher in ventilated patients. In critical care settings, within hours of endotracheal intubation, the upper respiratory tract is colonized by potential pulmonary pathogens. Thus, if an organism is cultured or seen on Gram’s stain, one does not know, if it is the cause for pneumonia or simply colonization. Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) increases the crude mortality rate by 2-10 times, and the hospital costs by increasing the length of stay and the need for more expensive antibiotics.
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