Endotracheal Tube: Friend or Foe? Bacteria, the Endotracheal Tube, and the Impact of Colonization and Infection

Seminars in Perinatology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 454-461

  Gibbs, Kathleen ^a   Holzman, Ian R ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonization; Endotracheal tube; Infection; NICU; Ventilator associated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOFILM; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE CARRIER; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LUNG DYSPLASIA; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBGLOTTIC STENOSIS; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BRONCHOPULMONARY DYSPLASIA; CROSS INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LARYNGOSTENOSIS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84870232064     PISSN: 01460005     EISSN: 1558075X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semperi.2012.06.008     Document Type: Review

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