Volume 27, Issue 140, October 2023

Ventilator associated pneumonia in ICU patients: Systematic review

Nawaf Abdulkarim Al-Naam^♦, Nawaf Mohammed Al- Anazi, Ali Nasser Al-Aliani, Othman Khalid Abahoussin, Ahmed Ali Mohammed Majrashi, Jalal Saeed Alqahtani, Ahmed Hamad Alaqeily, Naif Ahmed Almohaimid, Mohammed Shaim Alanezi

Respiratory Therapist, National Guard hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

^♦Corresponding author
Respiratory Therapist, National Guard hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

ABSTRACT

Pneumonia contracted in an intensive care unit by patients invasively intubated for mechanical ventilation is known as ventilator-associated pneumonia. Ventilator-associated pneumonia patients have a higher mortality risk, a greater cost burden, and a longer hospital stay. In the time period from 2010 to 2022 we tried to collect all articles according to our inclusion criteria published in Pubmed, Google scholar and PLOS ONE, then review was done according to PRISMA standard 2020, we reviewed the abstract and full text of selected articles, then we extracted information regarding studies purposes and main findings. Ten articles were reviewed we found that ventilator-associated pneumonia incidence is higher in men than women with mean of male percentage 62.9, mean of overall sample size was 9470.77 and the median was 422. The means of ICU mortality, ventilator associated pneumonia incidence length of stay in the ICU in days were 21.34, 19.12, and 8.82 respectively. This research's results can help establish infection control and prevention measures that will lessen ventilator-associated pneumonia impact. To stop this preventable threat from spreading at dangerous rate, control and preventative measures, such as interventional research and educational programs on staff training, hand sanitization, and the proper use of ventilator bundle approaches, are urgently needed.

Keywords: Ventilator associated pneumonia, mechanical ventilation, intensive care unit

Medical Science, 2023, 27, e370ms3244

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi.v27i140.e370ms3244

Published: 31 October 2023