Preventive strategies for ventilator associated pneumonia

Current Respiratory Medicine Reviews

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 238-252

  Boots, Robert J ^a   Udy, Andrew ^a   Holley, Anthony ^a   Lipman, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Prevention; Ventilator associated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORHEXIDINE; COLISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MIDAZOLAM; PERMANGANATE POTASSIUM; PLACEBO; POLYMYXIN; PROPOFOL; RANITIDINE; SUCRALFATE; SURFACTANT; TOBRAMYCIN;

AEROSOL; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARMY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BIOFILM; BREATHING EXERCISE; BRONCHUS BIOPSY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DRUG TOLERANCE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEEDING; FILTER; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GLOVE; HAND WASHING; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMIDIFIER; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LACTOBACILLUS; LENGTH OF STAY; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG LAVAGE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MOUTH HYGIENE; NASOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; NONINVASIVE VENTILATION; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT POSITIONING; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RISK REDUCTION; SEDATION; SINUSITIS; SKIN DECONTAMINATION; STRESS ULCER; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TOOTH BRUSHING; TRACHEAL ASPIRATION PROCEDURE; TRACHEOSTOMY; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

EID: 79952203446     PISSN: 1573398X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157339810793563758     Document Type: Article

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