Bronchoalveolar lavage for VAP diagnosis: Patients must be sampled before any change of antimicrobial therapy

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1690-1693

  Timsit, Jean François ^a,b  

^a HÔPITAL MICHALLON   (France)

^b INSTITUT ALBERT BONNIOT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; IMIPENEM; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ASPIRATION; AUTOPSY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; EDITORIAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG LAVAGE; MEDICAL EXPERT; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SAMPLING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT DURATION; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; HUMANS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RATS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 34748921769     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-007-0812-y     Document Type: Editorial

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