• Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Affiliated Zhongshan Hospital of Xiamen University. Xiamen, Fujian, 361004, China;
YOU Hao, Email: csyouhao@yahoo.com.cn
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Objective  To analyze the risk factors for ventilator-associated pneumonia( VAP) in adult patients undergoing cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass ( CPB) . Methods  A total of 127 consecutive adult patients who received postoperative ventilation for more than 48 hours between January 2002 and June 2008 in the cardiac surgical intensive care unit( CSICU) were included in this study. The patients were assigned into a VAPgroup( n =64) and a control group( n = 63) . Pre-, intra-, and postoperative factors were collected and analyzed between two groups, and the multivariate analysis( logistic regression)were used to identify the risk factors of VAP. Results  The overall incidence of VAP was 5.1%. The mortality of VAP was 28. 1% . Compared to the control group, the patients in the VAP group had longer duration of cardiopulmonary bypass time, ventilation time, more blood products usage and the duration of stay in CSICU( P  lt; 0. 001) , higher morbidity of low cardiac output syndrome and tracheotomy( P  lt; 0. 01) and higher rate of aortic surgery and mortality( P  lt; 0. 05) . The preoperative left ventricular ejection fraction ( LVEF) and postoperative oxygenation index( PaO2 /FiO2 ) were lower in the VAP group than those of the control group( P  lt; 0. 001) . Five variables were found to be significantly related to the development of VAP by multivariate analysis: CPB time  gt; 120 min( OR = 6. 352, P = 0. 000) ; PaO2 /FiO2  lt; 300 mm Hg( OR =3. 642, P = 0. 017) , transfusion of blood products ≥1500 mL( OR = 5. 083, P = 0. 039) , ventilation time≥5 days( OR = 9. 074, P = 0. 047) and tracheotomy( OR = 19. 899, P = 0. 021) . A total of 102 pathogens were obtained by sputum culture in 64 VAP patients. There were 62( 60. 8% ) cases of gram negative bacilli, 19 cases( 18. 6% ) of gram positive cocci and 21( 20. 6% ) cases of eumycetes. Conclusion  This study shows that the cardiopulmonary bypass time, ventilation time, hypoxemia, blood products transfusion and tracheotomy are risk factors most likely associated with VAP development.

Citation: YOU Hao,LIAO Chongxian,YANG Qian,SHAN Zhonggui,ZHAO Xia,QIU Feng,LING Zhi,GUO Hongwei,ZHU Peng. Risk Factors Analysis of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in Adult Patients Undergoing Heart Surgery with Cardiopulmonary Bypass. Chinese Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2009, 09(2): 162-165. doi: Copy

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