...) in the intensive care unit (ICU). Methods: Utilizing a retrospective cohort approach, the data were extracted from the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care IV database. VAP diagnoses were ascertained through the international classification of disease codes recorded in the database. Both univariate...

...Johannes Knoch Background: COVID-19 is a novel cause of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) that leads patients to intensive care unit (ICU) admission requiring invasive ventilation, who consequently are at risk of developing of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). The aim of this study...