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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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Ventilator-associated pneumonia: caveats for benchmarking

Intensive Care Medicine, 2004
Objective To determine the influence of using different denominators on risk estimates of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP).
Tulleken, JE, Zijlstra, JG, Ligtenberg, JJM, Spanjersberg, R, van der Werf, TS   +4 more
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Ventilator-associated pneumonia

Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine, 2005
This review summarises some of the notable papers on ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) from January 2003 to October 2004.Ventilator-associated pneumonia remains an important drain on hospital resources. All population groups are affected, but patients with VAP are more likely to be older, sicker, and male, with invasive medical devices in situ ...
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Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia

2012
When a patient on ventilatory support develops new shadows in the chest X-ray along with fever and leukocytosis after 48 h of intubation, it is suggestive of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). This occurs in 9–27% of intubated patients. The risk increases with the duration of mechanical ventilation.
Andrew Davenport, Todd W. Costantini, Raul Coimbra, Marc M. Sedwitz, A. Brent Eastman, David V. Feliciano, David V. Feliciano, David V. Feliciano, Thomas H. Cogbill, Jeremy Cordingley, Daryl Jones, Rinaldo Bellomo, Daryl Jones, Rinaldo Bellomo, Rinaldo Bellomo, Li Wan, Clive May, Anthony Gordon, Frank Bloos, Konrad Reinhart, Dean Hess, Andrew M. Morris, David Bacon, Barbara J. Philips, Alain Combes, Antoine Vieillard-Baron, Kiarash Shahlaie, J. Paul Muizelaar, Christoph K. Hofer, Andreas Zollinger, Charles-Edouard Luyt, Stuart L. Goldstein, David Osman, Xavier Monnet, Jean-Louis Teboul   +34 more
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