Is bronchoalveolar lavage with quantitative cultures a useful tool for diagnosing ventilator-associated pneumonia?

Critical Care

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Fagon, Jean Yves ^a   Chastre, Jean ^b   Rouby, Jean Jacques ^b  

^a HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

^b PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; MEROPENEM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLONY FORMING UNIT; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG LAVAGE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MONOTHERAPY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NOTE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; TRACHEAL ASPIRATION PROCEDURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; ARTICLE; MICROBIOLOGY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE; HUMANS; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED;

EID: 39549087666     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc5724     Document Type: Note

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