Endotracheal tube cuff leak: Can optimum management of cuff pressure prevent pneumonia?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1624-1626

  Akça, Ozan ^a  

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

Author keywords

Antiseptic; Aspiration; Chlorhexidine; Endotracheal tube; Oropharyngeal; Semirecumbent; Subglottic secretion; Tracheo bronchitis; Ventilator associated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CONTRAST MEDIUM;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CUFF; DEVICE; EDITORIAL; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FRANCE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; OROPHARYNX; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT FAILURE; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; TRACHEA;

EID: 34249320882     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000267654.98551.B3     Document Type: Editorial

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