Abstract

ARENCIBIA SOSA, Heriberto; MATHADOR, Naurah Esther; LOBAINA LAFITA, José Luis  and  SANCHEZ GUILLAUME, Jorge. Clinical characteristics of ventilator-associated pneumonia in pediatric intensive care . MEDISAN [online]. 2012, vol.16, n.11, pp.1690-1697. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out in 31 patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia, admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of "Dr. Juan de la Cruz Martínez Maceira" Northern Teaching Children Hospital of Santiago de Cuba, from January 2007 to December 2011, in order to characterize them clinically and epidemiologically. Children under one year, respiratory failure as the main cause of ventilation, patients with 4 or more days of ventilation as the most affected predominated in the series, as well as fever and changes in bronchial secretions as the most common symptoms, sedation as the most common risk factor, sedatives and muscular relaxers as drugs that mostly caused pneumonia, and third generation-cephalosporins as the most used drugs.

Keywords : pneumonia; ventilation; intensive care unit; children hospital.

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