Factors Predicting Ventilator Dependence in Patients with Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia

Author:

Tseng Chia-Cheng12,Huang Kuo-Tung12,Chen Yung-Che12,Wang Chin-Chou123,Liu Shih-Feng13,Tu Mei-Lien23,Chung Yu-Hsiu13,Fang Wen-Feng123,Lin Meng-Chih1234

Affiliation:

1. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung 833, Taiwan

2. Department of Respiratory Care, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, Chiayi 813, Taiwan

3. Department of Respiratory Therapy, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung 833, Taiwan

4. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Xiamen Chang Gung Hospital, Xiamen, China

Abstract

Objectives. To determine risk factors associated with ventilator dependence in patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP).Study Design. A retrospective study was conducted at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, from January 1, 2007 to January 31, 2008.Methods. This study evaluated 163 adult patients (aged ≥18 years). Eligibility was evaluated according to the criterion for VAP, Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score, Acute Physiological Assessment and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II) score. Oxygenation index, underlying comorbidities, septic shock status, previous tracheostomy status, and factors related to pneumonia were collected for analysis.Results. Of the 163 VAP patients in the study, 90 patients survived, yielding a mortality rate of 44.8%. Among the 90 surviving patients, only 36 (40%) had been weaned off ventilators at the time of discharge. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to identify underlying factors such as congestive cardiac failure (P=0.009), initial high oxygenation index value (P=0.04), increased SOFA scores (P=0.01), and increased APACHE II scores (P=0.02) as independent predictors of ventilator dependence. Results from the Kaplan-Meier method indicate that initial therapy with antibiotics could increase the ventilator weaning rate (log Rank test,P<0.001).Conclusions. Preexisting cardiopulmonary function, high APACHE II and SOFA scores, and high oxygenation index were the strongest predictors of ventilator dependence. Initial empiric antibiotic treatment can improve ventilator weaning rates at the time of discharge.

Funder

National Science Council

Publisher

Hindawi Limited

Subject

General Environmental Science,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,General Medicine

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