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In this regard, recent studies have shown that inflammatory mediators such as lipopolysaccharide (LPS), granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor and leukotriene B 4 delay apoptosis and prolong neutrophil survival in culture [ 3 4 ] . Neutrophils migrating into rodent lungs in response to LPS challenge have also been reported to exhibit delayed rates of apoptosis [ 5 6 ] . Similarly, increases in cytokine and growth factor activity, and reduced neutrophil apoptosis, have been described in various inflammatory lung diseases in humans including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, acute respiratory distress syndrome and pneumonia [ 3 7 8 ] .
If the risk for pneumonia was significantly increased in these critically ill patients, one might anticipate an increase rather than a decrease in ICU LOS.
Thus, if you assume that a 40 year-old dying from pneumonia would lose 5 years of life, the VSL applied to that death would be $0.
However, the study was not powered to detect a smaller but still clinically significant difference in the incidence of pneumonia between the two groups of patients.
Pneumocystis carinii causes pneumonia in immunocompromised patients with a high morbidity and mortality rate.