Clinical resolution in patients with suspicion of ventilator-associated pneumonia: A cohort study comparing patients with and without acute respiratory distress syndrome

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1248-1253

  Vidaur, Loreto ^a   Gualis, Belen ^a   Rodriguez, Alejandro ^a   Ramirez, Rafael ^a   Sandiumenge, Alberto ^a   Sirgo, Gonzalo ^a,b   Diaz, Emili ^a   Rello, Jordi ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI JOAN XXIII   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO 12 DE OCTUBRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acute respiratory distress syndrome; Clinical resolution; Ventilator associated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG CLEARANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONITORING; MORTALITY; OXYGENATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG MONITORING; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 20444455438     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000165811.61232.D6     Document Type: Article

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