Demographics
The analysis included 74/75 patients which had at least one respiratory
culture in their medical record. Demographic data are presented in Table
1 including comparison between children who ever had a MDRO-positive
culture and those who never had an MDRO recovered from culture
throughout the study (MDRO-negative). All the participants had
tracheostomies and 69 (93%) of them were on chronic mechanical
ventilation. Our patient population was predominately female and
Caucasian. They mostly come from rural, small town, and suburban areas.
The most common primary diagnosis was neuromuscular disease (n=45, 61%)
which included neurologic, cerebral palsy, secondary paralysis,
myopathies, and muscular dystrophies. There was no significant
difference between the baseline demographics of the MDRO-positive and
MDRO-negative participants.