1. Relationship between corticosteroid administration and incidence of ventilator-associated lower respiratory tract infections in COVID-19 patients: a retrospective multicenter study
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Ouriel SAURA, Anahita ROUZE, Ignacio MARTIN-LOECHES, Pedro POVOA, Louis KREITMANN, Antoni TORRES, Matthieu METZELARD, Damien DU CHEYRON, Fabien LAMBIOTTE, Fabienne TAMION, Marie LABRUYERE, Claire BOULLE GERONIMI, Charles-Edouard LUYT, Martine NYUNGA, Olivier POULY, Arnaud W. THILLE, Bruno MEGARBANE, Anastasia SAADE, Eleni MAGIRA, Jean-François LLITJOS, Iliana IOANNIDOU, Alexandre PIERRE, Jean REIGNIER, Denis GAROT, Jean-Luc BAUDEL, Guillaume VOIRIOT, Gaëtan PLANTEFEVE, Elise MORAWIEC, Pierre ASFAR, Alexandre BOYER, Armand MEKONTSO-DESSAP, Fotini BARDAKA, Emilio DIAZ, Christophe VINSONNEAU, Pierre-Edouard FLOCH, Nicolas WEISS, Adrian CECCATO, Antonio ARTIGAS, David NORA, Alain DUHAMEL, Julien LABREUCHE, and Saad NSEIR
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Background Ventilator-associated lower respiratory tract infections (VA-LRTI) are common in patients with severe SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia. The aim of this ancillary analysis of the coVAPid multicenter observational retrospective study is to assess the relationship between corticosteroid adjuvant administration and the incidence of VA-LRTI. MethodsPlanned ancillary analysis of a multicenter retrospective European cohort in 36 ICUs. Adult patients receiving invasive mechanical ventilation for more than 48 hours for a SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia were consecutively included between February and May 2020. VA-LRTI diagnosis required strict definition with clinical, radiological and microbiological documentation. We assessed the association of VA-LRTI with corticosteroid administration using univariate and multivariate cause-specific Cox’s proportional hazard models with adjustment on prespecified confounders.Results 545 patients were included, of whom 191 (35%) received corticosteroids. The proportional hazard assumption for the effect of corticosteroids on the incidence of VA-LRTI was violated (p=0.018) indicating that this effect varied during the ICU stay. We found a lower risk of VA-LRTI for corticosteroid treated patients during the first days in the ICU and an increased risk for longer ICU stay. By modeling the effect of corticosteroids with time dependent coefficients, the association between corticosteroids and the incidence of VA-LRTI was not significant (overall effect p=0.068), with time-dependent hazard ratios (95% confidence interval) of 0.45 (0.18 to 1.10) at day 2, 0.89 (0.62 to 1.27) at day 7, 1.38 (0.99 to 1.92) at day 14 and 1.80 (1.08 to 2.98) at day 21.Conclusions No significant association was found between corticosteroid adjuvant therapy and the incidence of VA-LRTI, although a significant time-varying effect of corticosteroids was identified along the 28-day follow-up.
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- 2022
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