Question

Patients requiring ventilation → complication → causative agent

Accepted Answer

Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP) → occurs due to use of sedative medications during intubation which depress the native ciliary elevator function of natural respiration → fever | hypothermia | purulent sputum → causative agent is P.aeruginosa treated with piperacillin-tazobactam

Front	Patients requiring ventilation → complication → causative agent
Back	Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP) → occurs due to use of sedative medications during intubation which depress the native ciliary elevator function of natural respiration → fever \| hypothermia \| purulent sputum → causative agent is *P.aeruginosa* treated with piperacillin-tazobactam

Causative Agent Patients Requiring Ventilation Complication Ventilator Pneumonia (Vap