Ventilator-associated pneumonia: Increased bacterial counts in bronchoalveolar lavage by using urea as an endogenous marker of dilution

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 756-759

  Zedtwitz Liebenstein, Konstantin ^a   Schenk, Peter ^a   Apfalter, Petra ^a   Fuhrmann, Valentin ^a   Stoiser, Brigitte ^a   Graninger, Wolfgang ^a   Schuster, Ernst ^a   Frass, Michael ^a   Burgmann, Heinz ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bacterial threshold; Bronchoalveolar lavage; Dilution; Epithelial lining fluid; Quantitative culture; Urea; Ventilator associated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; UREA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURE MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DILUTION; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UREA;

EID: 17044426822     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000157753.88333.C8     Document Type: Article

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