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Ventilator-associated pneumonia

Journal of Pediatric Critical Care, 2023
Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) has traditionally been defined as pneumonia in patients with mechanical ventilation for at least 48 h. Despite advancements in critical care, VAP remains to be a complication resulting in huge financial burden to ...
R Sanketh, Balaji Sankar, Jolly Chandran, Ebor Jacob G. James   +3 more
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Ventilator Circuits, Humidification and Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia [PDF]

Canadian Respiratory Journal, 1996
Technical issues in the care of mechanically ventilated patients include those related to the ventilator circuit, humidification and ventilator-associated pneumonia.
Dean Hess
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Experimental ventilator-associated pneumonia: distribution of lung infection and consequences for lung aeration [PDF]

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2003
Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) has been described in humans and in experimental animals. The most severe lesions are located in dependent lung segments along a sterno-vertebral axis, however the cephalocaudal distribution of lung infection remains
Vieira Silvia Regina Rios, Goldstein Ivan, Lenaour Gilles, Marquette Charles-Hugo, Rouby Jean-Jacques   +4 more
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Ventilator-associated events criteria in the assessment of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (IMPACTO MR-PAV): A prospective cohort [PDF]

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
Background: Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP) is a critical healthcare-associated infection, but no universal surveillance standard exists. In 2013, the CDC revised its criteria, incorporating Ventilator-Associated Events (VAEs) with VAPs as a subset.
Giovanna Marssola Nascimento, Daniela Laranja Gomes Rodrigues, Filipe Teixeira Piastrelli, Maysa Yukari Cheno, Katia Cristina Camondá Braz, Lucas Bassolli de Oliveira Alves, Bruno Martins Tomazini, Viviane Cordeiro Veiga, Beatriz Arns, Bruno Adler Maccagnan Pinheiro Besen, Antonio Paulo Nassar Junior, Alvaro Avezum, Renata Karoline Lima da Silva, Conceição de Maria Pedrozo e Silva de Azevedo, Maria Luiza Santana de Oliveira Silva, Graziela Regina Kist, Fernanda Borges Salgado, Maria Tereza Farias de Moura, Emerson Boschi, Pedro Martins Pereira Kurtz, Eva Regina Valadares da Silva Miraglia, Thawani Andrade de Lima, René Rodrigues Pereira, Jussara Alencar Arraes, Haliton Alves de Oliveira Junior   +24 more
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Management of Adults With Hospital-acquired and Ventilator-associated Pneumonia: 2016 Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American Thoracic Society

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2016
Andre C Kalil, Mark L Metersky, Michael Klompas   +2 more
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Ventilator-associated Pneumonia: A Narrative Review [PDF]

Al-Anbar Medical Journal, 2022
The difficulty of early diagnosis, the proper anti-microbial chosen, and the relatively high morbidity and mortality; make us collect the related subjects to deal with the most critical complication (ventilator-associated pneumonia) showing the major ...
Hayder Alkayssi
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Strategies to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia, ventilator-associated events, and nonventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia in acute-care hospitals: 2022 Update

Infection control and hospital epidemiology, 2022
The purpose of this document is to highlight practical recommendations to assist acute care hospitals to prioritize and implement strategies to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), ventilator-associated events (VAE), and non-ventilator hospital-
M. Klompas, R. Branson, Kelly A. Cawcutt, M. Crist, E. Eichenwald, L. Greene, Grace M. Lee, L. Maragakis, K. Powell, G. Priebe, Kathleen A. Speck, D. Yokoe, S. Berenholtz   +12 more
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Ventilator-associated pneumonia in critically ill patients with COVID-19

Critical Care, 2021
Pandemic COVID-19 caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has a high incidence of patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Many of these patients require admission to an intensive care unit (ICU) for invasive ventilation and are at ...
Mailis Maes, E. Higginson, J. Pereira-Dias, M. Curran, S. Parmar, F. Khokhar, Delphine Cuchet-Lourenço, Janine Lux, Sapna Sharma-Hajela, Benjamin Ravenhill, I. Hamed, Laura Heales, R. Mahroof, Amelia T. Soderholm, S. Forrest, S. Sridhar, N. Brown, S. Baker, V. Navapurkar, G. Dougan, Josefin Bartholdson Scott, A. Conway Morris   +21 more
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New Antibiotics for Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia and Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia.

Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2022
Hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) represent one of the most common hospital-acquired infections, carrying a significant morbidity and risk of mortality. Increasing antibiotic resistance among the common bacterial
M. Bassetti, A. Mularoni, D. Giacobbe, Nadia Castaldo, A. Vena   +4 more
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VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA IN TRAUMA PATIENTS; ASSOCIATED RISK FACTORS, MICROBIAL ETIOLOGY AND OUTCOME

Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, 2021
Objective: To assess the incidence, risk factors and outcome of ventilator associated pneumonia in trauma patients. Study Design: Prospective observational study.
Sohaima Manzoor, Farzana Batool, Muneeba Ahsan Sayeed, Azizullah Khan Dhiloo, Humera Muhammad Ismail, Shehla Baqai   +5 more
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