Active surveillance cultures to predict ventilator-associated pneumonia resulting from methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Is there a role beyond search and destroy?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1651-1652

  Toschlog, Eric A ^a,b   Ramsey, Keith M ^a,c  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Trauma and Surgical Critical Care   (United States)

^c VIDANT MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Active surveillance cultures; health care associated infections; MRSA; performance measures; screening; surveillance; ventilator associated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SURVEILLANCE CULTURE; BURN; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EDITORIAL; HAND WASHING; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG LAVAGE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; NOSE SMEAR; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; SCREENING; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PNEUMONIA, STAPHYLOCOCCAL; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED;

EID: 84860251525     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3182474b27     Document Type: Editorial

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