Gravity predominates over ventilatory pattern in the prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Li Bassi, Gianluigi ^a,b,c   Marti, Joan Daniel ^a,b,c   Saucedo, Lina ^a   Rigol, Montserrat ^a,b,d   Roca, Ignasi ^e   Cabanas, Maria ^d   Muñoz, Laura ^e   Ranzani, Otavio Tavares ^a,c,f   Giunta, Valeria ^a   Luque, Nestor ^a   Esperatti, Mariano ^a   Gabarrus, Albert ^d   Fernandez, Laia ^a,b,c   Rinaudo, Mariano ^a   Ferrer, Miguel ^a   Ramirez, Jose ^d   Vila, Jordi ^e   Torres, Antoni ^a,b,c,e  

^a Thorax Institute   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

mechanical ventilation; mucus clearance; semirecumbent position; ventilator associated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

MICROSPHERE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BODY POSITION; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAVITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LUNG MECHANICS; MUCUS; MUCUS SECRETION; NONHUMAN; OROPHARYNX; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PULMONARY ASPIRATION; RECUMBENCY; RISK REDUCTION; SPAIN; SWINE; TRACHEA; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

ANIMALS; GRAVITATION; HEMODYNAMICS; MUCUS; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; POSITIVE-PRESSURE RESPIRATION; PRONE POSITION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SWINE; TRACHEA;

EID: 84906789995     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000487     Document Type: Article

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