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We hypothesised that lung ultrasound may have a role in guiding antibiotic discontinuation in patients with VAP that will help to reduce the antibiotic duration and decrease the resistance.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This was a prospective blinded cohort study from October 2020 to September 2021 in which 62 VAP patients were recruited. Antibiotics were started, procalcitonin (PCT) level and clinical pulmonary infection score were estimated and lung ultrasound (US) was performed on day 1 and repeated on day 7. On day 7, discontinuation of antibiotics was recommended if the PCT level was &lt;0.25 \u03bcg\/L. A lung reaeration score was recorded.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Based on the PCT levels, antibiotics were discontinued in 40 patients. The computed tomography findings of VAP had improved in all. The ultrasound reaeration score showed a highly significant negative correlation with the PCT on day 7 (-0.718, P &lt; 0.001). A cut-off of 5 for the US score showed a sensitivity of 92.5%, specificity of 95.5%, positive predictive value of 97.4% and negative predictive value of 87.5% in detecting a low PCT score on day 7.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Lung US is a non-invasive and safe method that can be used to guide antibiotic therapy in VAP.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.4103\/ija.ija_989_21","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,6,20]],"date-time":"2022-06-20T02:55:03Z","timestamp":1655693703000},"page":"431-435","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1097\/lww.0000000000001000","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["The role of lung ultrasound in procalcitonin-guided antibiotic discontinuation in ventilator-associated pneumonia"],"prefix":"10.4103","volume":"66","author":[{"given":"Mona A.","family":"Ammar","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Amr","family":"Hilal","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Waleed","family":"Abdalla","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"276","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,6,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1-20240902","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"665","DOI":"10.1016\/S1473-3099(13)70081-1","article-title":"Attributable mortality of ventilator-associated pneumonia:A meta-analysis of individual patient data from randomized prevention studies","volume":"13","author":"Melsen","year":"2013","journal-title":"Lancet Infect Dis"},{"key":"B2-20240902","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"434","DOI":"10.1164\/rccm.200809-1394CP","article-title":"Antimicrobial stewardship in the intensive care unit:Advances and obstacles","volume":"179","author":"Lawrence","year":"2009","journal-title":"Am J Respir Crit Care Med"},{"key":"B3-20240902","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"243","DOI":"10.4103\/ija.ija_319_22","article-title":"Striving towards excellence in research on biomarkers","volume":"66","author":"Malviya","year":"2022","journal-title":"Indian J Anaesth"},{"key":"B4-20240902","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"575","DOI":"10.1586\/eri.10.25","article-title":"Procalcitonin for guidance of antibiotic therapy","volume":"8","author":"Schuetz","year":"2010","journal-title":"Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther"},{"key":"B5-20240902","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"e5713","DOI":"10.1097\/MD.0000000000005713","article-title":"Lung ultrasound for the diagnosis of pneumonia in adults. 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