Definition

• Hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP)
  
  • Pneumonia that develops > 48 hours after hospital admission and is not incubating at admission
• Ventilator-acquired pneumonia (VAP)
  • A subset of HAP
  • Pneumonia that develops after > 48 hours of mechanical ventilation and not incubating at the time of intubation

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