To survey associate factors of ventilator-associated pneumonia in burns patients at the ICU, National Burns Hospital

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate factors related to the onset of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in patients with severe burns at the (ICU), National Burn Hospital. Associate factors for VAP include burns surface area (r = 0.53; p = 0.0002), deep burns area (r = 0.5; p = 0.0005), burns prognosis index (r = 0.52; p = 0.0003), inhalation injury (r = 0.5; p = 0.0006) and deep burns on the back (r = 0.41; p = 0.006). Multivariate logistic regression analysis identified only inhalation injury to be independently associated with VAP (p < 0.05), patients with inhalation injury are at risk of VAP 9.6 times higher than those without inhalation injury (p = 0.02).