How common is ventilator-associated pneumonia after coronavirus disease 2019?
Curr Opin Infect Dis
; 35(2): 170-175, 2022 04 01.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1642444
ABSTRACT
PURPOSE OF REVIEW The first studies on COVID-19 patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) described a high rate of secondary bacterial ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). The specificity of VAP diagnoses in these patients are reviewed, including their actual rate. RECENT FINDINGS:
Published studies described high rates of bacterial VAP among COVID-19 patients with ARDS, and these VAP episodes are usually severe and of specifically poor prognosis with high mortality. Indeed, Severe acute respiratory syndrome - coronavirus disease 19 (SARS-CoV2) infection elicits alterations that may explain a high risk of VAP. In addition, breaches in the aseptic management of patients might have occurred when the burden of care was heavy. In addition, VAP in these patients is more frequently suspected, and more often investigated with diagnostic tools based on molecular techniques.SUMMARY:
VAP is frequented and of particularly poor prognosis in COVID-19 patients with ARDS. It can be explained by SARS-CoV-2 pathophysiology, and also breaches in the aseptic procedures. In addition, tools based on molecular techniques allow an early diagnosis and unmask VAP usually underdiagnosed by traditional culture-based methods. The impact of molecular technique-based diagnostics in improving antibacterial therapy and COVID-19 prognosis remain to be evaluated.
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pneumonia, Ventilator-Associated
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Experimental Studies
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Curr Opin Infect Dis
Journal subject:
Communicable Diseases
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
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