Ventilator-associated pneumonia prevention: WHAP, positive end-expiratory pressure, or both?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2441-2442

  Schultz, Marcus J ^a,b   Determann, Rogier M ^a   Juffermans, Nicole P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b HERMES Critical Care Group   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Prevention; Ventilator associated lung injury; Ventilator associated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ATELECTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EDITORIAL; FEVER; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; HYGIENE; HYPOTHERMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LEUKOPENIA; LUNG INJURY; LUNG VENTILATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPPURATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; INCIDENCE; NOTE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; POSITIVE-PRESSURE RESPIRATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT;

EID: 49949092323     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31817c0dc6     Document Type: Editorial

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