Table 1.

Chest Echocardiography and Procalcitonin Pulmonary Infection Score (CEPPIS) used in the diagnosis of VAP in the prospective and retrospective cohort (CEPPIS > 5 = VAP).

Parameter	CEPPIS
Temperature (°C)
≥38.5 and <38.9	1
≥39 and <36	2
Prokalcitonin (ng/mL)
≥0.5 and <1	1
≥1	2
Purulent tracheal secretions	2
Positive infiltrates on chest echograph (sub-pleural echo-poor region or more with tissue-like echo texture)	2
Positive endotracheal aspirate (>104 colony-formingunits/mL)	2
Oxygenation PaO2/FiO2 ≤ 240 and absence of ARDS	2

VAP—ventilator-associated pneumonia; ARDS—acute respiratory distress syndrome.