Ventilator Days

Ventilated patients and ventilator-days in a period, worked out from the flowsheet rounds that record ventilator or NIV support.

Ventilator Days counts the patients on a ventilator and the days they spent on it in a period. Infection-control teams use it as the base for ventilator-associated infection rates.

Before you begin

• Your role needs the hospital reports permission. See Users & Roles.
• The figures come from flowsheet rounds that record a ventilator mode, or Support set to ventilator or NIV. See Chart an ICU round and hand over.

Where to find it

Open Intensive care → Records → Ventilator Days. It opens as Ventilator-Days Report.

Run the report

1. Set From and To.
2. Optionally pick a Department.
3. Click Run.
4. Click A4 to print, or CSV to download every row.

What the report shows

The tiles count Ventilated Patients, Ventilator-Days and Entries (rounds on ventilation).

A ventilator-day is one patient on one calendar day with at least one ventilated round.

Common questions

A ventilated patient is missing. The rounds did not record a vent mode or ventilator support. Fill in Support and Vent Mode on each round.

Why is the count lower than expected? Only days with a charted round count. A day with no round on the flowsheet is not counted.