• Jasmine Shrivastav
• Lovely Razdan
• Abhineet Goyal

Healthcare Associated Infections significantly cause illness and deaths, ending up into subsequent medical conditions, elevated treatment cost and/or shattering emotional consequences. It is one of the prime responsibilities of all the healthcare settings to curb the foreseen and/or unforeseen medical consequences prior-hand. Concurrent short report is an outcome of such a venture attempting to raise the standards of healthcare in a tertiary care hospital. Implementation of VAP bundle in ICU aims to decrease the incidence rate of VAP and reduction of mortality rate in tertiary care hospital. This prospective and observational study was conducted for the duration of 12 months. Patients requiring mechanical ventilation and intubation for >48 hrs were eligible. VAP diagnosis was based upon clinical radiographic and quantitative microbiological sample culturing criteria. Seven major guidelines by CDC were followed daily on intubated patients. As reported earlier, VAP incidence rate was 98% initially in the hospital followed by reduction to 60% after the implementation of VAP Bundle. An Overall VAP Bundle compliance rate was found 88.5%. Further, mortality rate reduced from 99% to 60.11%. It was challenging to deploy all strategies in hospital setting; however, efforts were made, to curb the mortality rate.

"IMPLEMENTATION OF VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA BUNDLE IN ADULT INTENSIVE CARE UNIT TO REDUCE MORTALITY RATE ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 5, page no.g563-g565, May-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2105874.pdf

"IMPLEMENTATION OF VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA BUNDLE IN ADULT INTENSIVE CARE UNIT TO REDUCE MORTALITY RATE ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 5, page no. ppg563-g565, May-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2105874.pdf