Invasive Mechanical Ventilation Increases Mortality Risk In Severe CAP.

Invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) is associated with significant morbidity and mortality in patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia (SCAP). Invasive ventilated patients (with higher mortality) should be considered as a target population for future clinical trials on new interventions to reduce mortality of SCAP. Patients with SCAP and life threatening acute respiratory failure (ARF) requires IMV. But the use of IMV is associated with multiple complication, and a high mortality.

However, it is necessary to understand the impact of IMV in a consecutive series of patients with SCAP. Study Objective: To assess whether invasive ventilated patients should be considered as a target population for intervention aimed at reducing the mortality in SCAP. Methods The participants (Spain) those registered under emergency department between January 2000 and December 2011 were recruited…