Preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia: Does the evidence support the practice?

JAMA

Volumn 307, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 2534-2539

  O'Grady, Naomi P ^a   Murray, Patrick R ^a   Ames, Nancy ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIDULAFUNGIN; COLISTIN; FOSCARNET; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; MEROPENEM; TIGECYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLON DILATATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INFECTION PREVENTION; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG LAVAGE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTIC SHOCK; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYPNEA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRACHEAL ASPIRATION PROCEDURE; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

EID: 84862502468     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2012.6445     Document Type: Article

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