Ventilator-associated pneumonia or endotracheal tube-associated pneumonia?: An approach to the pathogenesis and preventive strategies emphasizing the importance of endotracheal tube

Anesthesiology

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 673-680

  Pneumatikos, Ioannis A ^c   Dragoumanis, Christos K ^a   Bouros, Demosthenes E ^b  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY GENERAL HOSPITAL OF ALEXANDROUPOLIS   (Greece)

^c DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPIRATION; BIOFILM; ENDOTRACHEAL CUFF; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MUCOCILIARY CLEARANCE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PNEUMONIA; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SECRETION; TRACHEA MUCOSA; VENTILATED PATIENT; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; ANIMAL; CROSS INFECTION; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CROSS INFECTION; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED;

EID: 62349130897     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e31819868e0     Document Type: Review

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