Effect of mechanical cleaning of endotracheal tubes with sterile urethral catheters to reduce Biofilm formation in ventilator patients

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2013, Pages e338-e343

  Liu, Weijuan ^a,b   Zuo, Zelan ^a   Ma, Ronghua ^a   Zhang, Xinxin ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF CHONGQING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUANGZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biofilm; Confocal laser scanning microscopy; Endotracheal tube; Urethral catheter; Ventilator associated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

EXTRACELLULAR POLYMERIC SUBSTANCE; MICROBIAL PRODUCTS NOT CLASSIFIED ELSEWHERE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADOLESCENT; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOFILM; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CHILD; CLEANING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MECHANICAL ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE CLEANING; MUCUS SECRETION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; STERILE URETHRAL CATHETER; URETHRAL CATHETER; VENTILATED PATIENT; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL LOAD; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EXTUBATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; URINARY CATHETER;

ADOLESCENT; AIRWAY EXTUBATION; BACTERIAL LOAD; BIOFILMS; CHILD; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; MALE; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; URINARY CATHETERS;

EID: 84903664380     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: 19473893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0b013e31828aa5d6     Document Type: Article

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