The effect of presenting complaint on the risk of developing ventilator-associated pneumonia for patients intubated in an academic emergency department

Intensive Care Medicine Experimental

Table 1 Medical Patients VAP Risk and Incidence.

	Respiratory	Neurologic	Cardiac	Psychiatric	GI	Multisystem / other
Total Patients	59	87	28	57	9	55
% at risk for VAP	9 (15%)	21 (24%)	1 (4%)	6 (11%)	1 (11%)	9 (16%)
% at risk who developed VAP	2 (22%)	2 (10%)	0 (0%)	1 (17%)	0 (0%)	3 (33%)