Testing the tube: Assessing silver as a potential "silver bullet" for preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1220-1221

  Palmore, Tara N ^a   Henderson, David K ^b  

^a Service Clinical Center   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Endotracheal tube; Healthcareassociated infection; Nosocomial infection; Pneumonia; Ventilator associated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; SILVER;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BIOFILM; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DEVICE INFECTION; EDITORIAL; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MATERIAL COATING; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; RISK FACTOR; TUBE; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

EID: 77950295489     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181d1692a     Document Type: Editorial

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