Objetivo: Caracterizar as consequências e mortalidade dos pacientes com pneumonia associada à ventilação mecânica (PAV) na Unidade de Terapia Intensiva (UTI) de um hospital público do interior de Rondônia Métodos: Estudo transversal, documental com abordagem descritiva quantitativa por meio dos dados do ano de 2018 colhidos junto a Comissão de Controle de Infecção Hospitalar e Serviço de Arquivo Médico Hospitalar, através dos prontuários. A amostra foi composta por pacientes de ambos os sexos com idade superior a 18 anos que desenvolveram PAV no período. Resultados: Foram identificados 20 casos confirmados de PAV, observou-se a prevalência do sexo masculino, predominância da faixa etária com idade inferior a 60 anos, a taxa mortalidade por PAV foi de 5%. A média de permanência dos pacientes após o diagnóstico de PAV foi de 15,65 dias. A maior parte dos casos de PAV foi diagnosticado com perfil clinico e o microrganismo encontrado em amostra isolada com maior prevalência foi a Klebsiella pneumoniae. Conclusão: A PAV resulta em prolongamento do tempo de internação, resistência aos antimicrobianos entre outros agravos, tornando a infecção hospitalar um problema para o paciente e para a instituição.
Infections in the hospital environment are a serious problem in the intensive care unit environments. Mechanical ventilation-associated pneumonia (VAP) is the second most frequent infection in American and European Intensive Care Units (ICUs). This project aimed to outline the clinicalepidemiological profile of patients admitted to an Intensive Care Unit. It is descriptive, documentary, with a quantitative approach. Data were collected using a specific form, directly from the patients' medical records and, afterwards, underwent a quantitative analysis process. Information was collected from 17 patients, through their medical records, who developed VAP in an Intensive Care Unit from January to December 2018, with two patients developing the infection twice. Thus, 100% of patients who developed VAP in the period were surveyed. The incidence density of VAP during the period in the studied unit was 5.6 cases for every 1000 mechanical ventilators / day. At the outcome of the clinical course of patients hospitalized with VAP, the mortality rate was 41% due to VAP, however, 24% of the patients died of other complications, 35% were successful in the treatment and management of VAP. Knowledge about these data is of great importance in the creation of assessment instruments in nursing care, gaining gains in the evolution of the clinical condition of patients, providing nurses with better planning of their health care actions.
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