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Table 1 Characteristics of the 103 patients studied

From: Ventilator-associated pneumonia in a surgical intensive care unit: epidemiology, etiology and comparison of three bronchoscopic methods for microbiological specimen sampling

Variables

Patients with VAP (n = 49)

Patients without VAP (n = 54)

Sex (M/F)

39/10

35/19

Age (years)

51 ± 18.5

56 ± 18 (n.s.)†

APACHE II score

11.5 ± 5

13.6 ± 6 (n.s.)†

Ventilator duration (days) (mean ± SD)

1519 (31 ± 27)

783 (14.5 ± 14)*†

Treatment on ICU (days) (mean ± SD)

1849 (37.7 ± 27)

979 (18.1 ± 15.6)*†

Cause of admission (n):

  

   Abdominal surgery

21

25

   Thoracic surgery

1

2

   Aortic surgery

2

2

   Other surgery

18

15

   Multiple trauma

5

6

   No surgery

2

4

Mortality (n)

11

25*‡

  1. *Significant with P < 0.05; n.s., not significant but because 0.1 >P > 0.05 a trend is perceptible, which points to a distinction. †U test (Wilcoxon, Mann and Witney). ‡Χ2 test. VAP, ventilator-associated pneumonia; ICU, intensive care unit.
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