The hospital is a potentially harmful zone as critically ill patients face an added risk of infectious diseases like pneumonia from their breathing tubes. A study of a new multidisciplinary protocol ...
Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a preventable secondary consequence of intubation and mechanical ventilation. VAP is pneumonia that develops in an intubated patient after 48 hours or more of ...
Researchers examined the effectiveness of practice bundles on reducing ventilator-associated pneumonia in a recent study published in the journal Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. The study ...
In 2009, the process measures subject to analysis included 2,396 HOB elevation observations (98.6% compliance), 611 ventilator circuits without changes (99.8% compliance) and 611 observations of HMEs ...
Allan J. Walkey , MD, Christine Campbell Reardon , MD, Carol A. Sulis , MD, R. Nicholas Nace , MD and Martin Joyce‐Brady , MD Objective. To characterize the epidemiology and microbiology of ventilator ...
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