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cord-011296-nutl2ovk	Wu, Venus Kit Sze	Prevalence, Clinical Characteristics, and Outcomes Related to Ventilator-Associated Events in Neurocritically Ill Patients	2020-01-23		.txt	text/plain	3569	174	38	BACKGROUND: The prevalence, characteristics, and outcomes related to the ventilator-associated event(s) (VAE) in neurocritically ill patients are unknown and examined in this study. METHODS: A retrospective study was performed on neurocritically ill patients at a 413-bed level 1 trauma and stroke center who received three or more days of mechanical ventilation to describe rates of VAE, describe characteristics of patients with VAE, and examine the association of VAE on ventilator days, mortality, length of stay, and discharge to home. The main findings of this study are that (1) VAEs are prevalent among neurocritically ill patients, occur within the first week of mechanical ventilation, across age, sex, BMI, and GCS, and the rates differ among various diagnoses, (2) the most common trigger for VAE is an increase in PEEP, and (3) VAE is associated with increased time spent on mechanical ventilation but is not associated with increased in-hospital mortality or discharge to home.	./cache/cord-011296-nutl2ovk.txt	./txt/cord-011296-nutl2ovk.txt