Antiseptic impregnated endotracheal tubes, biofilms, and ventilator-associated pneumonia

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2855-2857

  Orhan Sungur, Mukadder ^a   Akça, Ozan ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Bio film; Chlorhexidine; Endotracheal tube; Silver; Ventilator associated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SILVER;

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIOSTASIS; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BIOFILM; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISINFECTION; EDITORIAL; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MOUTH HYGIENE; NONHUMAN; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RECUMBENCY; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

BIOFILMS; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SILVER;

EID: 33750271576     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000242916.88916.43     Document Type: Editorial

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