Fig 1.
Flow chart of the study.
Fig 2.
Chest X-ray obtained in a patient with an initial right endobronchial intubation and in another patient with initial proper tracheal intubation for comparison.
The black arrow points to the tip of the endobronchial tube while the trachea and main right and left bronchi are underlined in black. On day 4, the patient with initial EBI developed basal lung infiltrates (predominant in the right base) compatible with VAP, whereas the patient with proper position of the tracheal tube on admission had an unremarkable chest X-ray.
Table 1.
Characteristics of the study population*.
Table 2.
Ventilator associated respiratory tract infections.
Table 3.
Comparison between patients developing early VAP with those who did not.