Table 4.

Outcomes and hospital course

No of patients on mechanical ventilation	42/48
Duration of mechanical ventilation
Overall	21.1 days
	(0–85 days)
Patients with sepsis/ARDS	27.7 days
	(5–56 days)
Nonseptic patients	23.3 days
	(1–85 days)
Post-thoracic surgery	15.8 days
	(1–28 days)
No. of patients only on noninvasive ventilation	6/48
No. of patients treated for presumed HAP or	25/48 (52%)
HAP during or after detection of HSV
Methicillin-sensitive staphylococcus aureus	4
Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus	3
Pseudomonas aerogunosa	6
Klebsiella pneumoniae	5
Enterobacter cloacae	4
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia	1
Beta-hemolytic streptococci	1
Citrobacter freundi	1
Overall mortality	20/48 (42%)
Mortality based on disease category
Sepsis/ARDS	7/20 (35%)
Nonseptic patients	13/20 (65%)
No. of patients requiring tracheostomy	16/48 (33%)
Discharge disposition in survivors
Home	11/28 (39%)
Skilled nursing facility	17/28 (61%)

HAP, hospital-acquired pneumonia; VAP, ventilator-associated pneumonia