NOT a feature of ventilator associated pneumonia: (A) Fever, (B) Tachycardia, (C) New shadows on chest X-ray, (D) Leucocytosis
Answer is B. (B) Tachycardia> Tachycardia: Clinical criteria for diagnosis of ventilator pneumonia include (fever, Leucotyosis, New changing radiographic infiltrates, development of purulent secretions change in oxygen requirement/ventilator settings, which have high sensitivity but low specificity.