Artificial respiration associated with pneumonia in the ICU at the General Teaching Hospital "Dr. Agostinho Neto”, Guantanamo

In the intensive care unit at the Hospital "Dr. Agostinho Neto" Guantanamo, the pneumonia associated with mechanical ventilation is recorded in the bank problems. Where the essential features of patients with associated pneumonia requiring mechanical ventilation admitted in this unit during 2013. A descriptive, cross-sectional and prospective study was performed in 92 patients with this condition; frequency, age, sex, type of pneumonia, reason for admission, risk factors, ventilated days, evolution, discharge status, among other, variables are identified. Predominance of older males 60 years in the death from pneumonia associated with mechanical ventilation with a late form of the disease. The highest percentage is ventilated more than six days, and are affected by a brain hemorrhage. 83.3% die by the severity of the disease motivating the admission. The main risk factors are the use of muscle relaxants and the placement of nasogastric tube. The proportion of patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia is high, and in them is high the lethality.