Table 3.
ICU course and outcome of the patients.
| Patient No. | Oxygen therapy | Time on ventilator (d) | Tracheostomy done | Ventilator Associated Pneumonia | Bacteria isolated In BAL |
Total ICU stay (d) | Total hospital stay (d) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Venturi mask | Nil | – | – | Nil | 2 | 8 |
| 2 | Intubated | 30 | + | + | Acinetobacter + Klebsiella | 34 | 36 |
| 3 | Intubated | 26 | + | + | Acinetobacter | 27 | 29 |
| 4 | Intubated | 16 | + | + | Staph. aureus | 19 | 22 |
| 5 | Intubated | 7 | – | – | Nil | 14 | 21 |
| 6 | NIV mask | 6 | – | – | Nil | 8 | 14 |
| 7 | Intubated | 5 | + | – | Nil | 7 | 9 |
| 8 | Intubated | 25 | + | + | Acinetobacter | 30 | 37 |
| 9 | NIV mask | 2 | – | – | Nil | 4 | 10 |
| 10 | Venturi mask | Nil | – | – | Nil | 2 | 5 |
BAL: bronchoalveolar lavage; Nil: zero; +: yes; −: no.