Tracheostomy - Causative or preventive for ventilator-associated pneumonia?

Current Respiratory Medicine Reviews

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 52-57

  Veelo, Denise P ^a   Binnekade, Jan M ^a   Schultz, Marcus J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b HERMES Critical Care Group   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Outcome; Risk factors; Timing; Tracheostomy; Ventilator associated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CHRONOLOGY; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRACHEOSTOMY; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

EID: 77950377339     PISSN: 1573398X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157339810790820476     Document Type: Article

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