Factors predicting ventilator-associated pneumonia recurrence

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1102-1107

  Combes, Alain ^a   Figliolini, Corinne ^a   Trouillet, Jean Louis ^a   Kassis, Najibi ^b   Dombret, Marie Christine ^a   Wolff, Michel ^b   Gibert, Claude ^a   Chastre, Jean ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Artificial; Bacterial; Intensive care units; Logistic models; Pneumonia; Prospective studies; Respiration; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BRONCHOSCOPY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLONY FORMING UNIT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG INJURY; LUNG LAVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TEMPERATURE; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECURRENCE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0037387562     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000059313.31477.2C     Document Type: Article

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