VAP: Strategies for prevention and treatment

Journal of Respiratory Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 321-327

  Rumbak, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CHLORHEXIDINE GLUCONATE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; RANITIDINE; RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN; SUCRALFATE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ANEMIA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DECUBITUS; DISINFECTION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LUNG LAVAGE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PNEUMONIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STRESS ULCER; VENTILATOR;

EID: 0034115658     PISSN: 0194259X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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