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Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a common complication of mechanical ventilation. Between 10 percent and 20 percent of patients who are intubated and receive mechanical ventilation develop VAP. The incidence is related to the duration of mechanical ventilation, with patients who are intubated more than 72 hours demonstrating incidence rates near 20 percent. This high incidence rate is of particular concern because the mortality rate is doubled in critically ill patients who develop VAP. In ICU patients of a private community teaching hospital, ventilated patients with VAP had mortality rates of 45.5 percent compared with 32.2 percent in ventilated patients without VAP.
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