Increased mortality of ventilated patients with endotracheal Pseudomonas aeruginosa without clinical signs of infection

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2495-2503

  Zhuo, Hanjing ^a   Yang, Katherine ^a   Lynch, Susan V ^a   Dotson, Rachel H ^a   Glidden, David V ^a   Singh, Gaurav ^b   Webb, W Richard ^a   Elicker, Brett M ^a   Garcia, Oscar ^b   Brown, Ronald ^b   Sawa, Yoriko ^a   Misset, Benoît ^c   Wiener Kronish, Jeanine P ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL   (France)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAM NEGATIVE SEPSIS; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; LUNG LAVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN SECRETION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TRACHEAL ASPIRATION PROCEDURE; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; AGED; BACTERIAL COUNT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; TIME; TRACHEA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TRACHEA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 53049087805     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e318183f3f8     Document Type: Article

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