Subthreshold quantitative bronchoalveolar lavage: Clinical and therapeutic implications

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 580-586

  Malhotra, Ajai K ^a,b   Riaz, Omer J ^a   Duane, Therese M ^a   Aboutanos, Michel B ^a   Goldberg, Aaron E ^a   Smalara, Karen M ^a   Borchers, Christopher T ^a   Martin, Nancy R ^a   Ivatury, Rao R ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bronchoalveolar; Lavage; Pneumonia; Ventilator

Indexed keywords

PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; VANCOMYCIN;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BLOOD CULTURE; BURN; COLONY FORMING UNIT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUNG INJURY; LUNG LAVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROORGANISM; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BRONCHOSCOPY; FACTUAL DATABASE; INTENSIVE CARE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LENGTH OF STAY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE; BRONCHOSCOPY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 67650326646     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181825b9f     Document Type: Article

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