Prevention of VAP: The whole is more than the sum of its parts

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 985-987

  Lisboa, Thiago ^a   Kollef, Marin H ^b   Rello, Jordi ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI JOAN XXIII   (Spain)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SILVER;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DISEASE COURSE; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICARE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PATIENT CARE; PROPHYLAXIS; URINARY CATHETER; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

BIOFILMS; CROSS INFECTION; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED;

EID: 46149123663     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-008-1101-0     Document Type: Editorial

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