Efficacy of a pneumonia prevention protocol in the reduction of ventilator-associated pneumonia in trauma patients

Surgical Infections

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 505-510

  Lansford, Todd ^a   Moncure, Michael ^a   Carlton, Elizabeth ^a   Endress, Ryan ^a   Shik, Nina ^b   Udobi, Kahdi ^a   Braxton, Carla ^a   Danks, Roy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORHEXIDINE;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADULT; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INJURY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH TUBE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VENTILATOR; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 36148981484     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2006.001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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