Incidence and Outcome of Healthcare-Associated Acinetobacter baumannii in Chronically Ventilated Patients in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Taiwan

Although chronically ventilated patients with HAIA have longer ventilator days, higher antibiotics resistance, and high rate per 100 patients of ventilator-associated pneumonia, most patients are treated well. Compared with patients without HAIA, prolonged ventilation days and inappropriate empiric antibiotics within 48 hours are independent factors of the 30-day mortality.