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Changes in the reporting of ventilator-associated pneumonia

Southwest Respiratory and Critical Care Chronicles, 2013
Jeremy Whiting, Hawa Edriss, Nina Ngo, Lacy Phillips   +3 more
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Ventilator-associated pneumonia

International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, 1998
Mechanically ventilated patients are at a substantially higher risk for developing nosocomial pneumonia. Overall, there is a relatively constant 1&!TN!150;3% risk per day of developing pneumonia while receiving mechanical ventilation. The sensitivity and specificity of clinical criteria alone for diagnosis of ventilator-associated pneumonias (VAP) is ...
F, Visnegarwala, N G, Iyer, R J, Hamill
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Diagnosing Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia

New England Journal of Medicine, 2004
The establishment of an appropriate diagnosis of ventilator-associated pneumonia is one of the most crucial and difficult issues in the care of critically ill patients. Established clinical criteria alone, such as new or progressive infiltrates on chest radiography, together with fever, leukocytosis or leukopenia, and purulent tracheobronchial ...
Antoni, Torres, Santiago, Ewig
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