Nonpharmacologic measures to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia

Clinical Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 63-70

  Lorente, Leonardo ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Circuits change; Cuff pressure; Extubation; Filters; Humidifier; Intubation; Kinetic bed; Noninvasive ventilation; Reintubation; Semirecumbent position; Subglottic secretions drainage; Tracheal suctioning; Tracheostomy; Ventilator associated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BODY POSITION; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; ENDOTRACHEAL CUFF; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; EXTUBATION; FOOD INTAKE; HEAT EXCHANGE; HUMAN; HUMIDIFIER; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NASOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; PATIENT CARE; REVIEW; THERAPY DELAY; TRACHEOSTOMY; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

EID: 40949130509     PISSN: 10680640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CPM.0b013e31816728ac     Document Type: Review

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