Risk Factors and Nursing Countermeasures of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in Children in the Intensive Care Unit

Table 2

Univariate analysis of general clinical data on VAP in the pediatric ICU.

General clinical data	VAP group (n = 49)	Non-VAP group (n = 106)	X^2
Gender (cases)			0.0185	0.8918
Male	26	55
Female	23	51
Age (yd)			11.9029	0.0006
<7	28	30
≥7	21	76
Underlying disease (cases)			12.2373	0.0005
Yes	26	26
No	23	80
Experience of blood transfusion (case)			12.4831	0.0004
Yes	25	24
No	24	82
Malnutrition (cases)			5.7306	0.0167
Yes	13	12
No	36	94