Bacteremia and ventilator-associated pneumonia: A marker for contemporaneous extra-pulmonic infection

Surgical Infections

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 77-83

  Kunac, Anastasia ^a   Sifri, Ziad C ^a   Mohr, Alicia M ^a   Horng, Helen ^b   Lavery, Robert F ^a   Livingston, David H ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTEREMIA VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; BLOOD CULTURE; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENTEROBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MECHANICAL VENTILATOR; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURVIVAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; INJURY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TRAUMA CENTERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84924026766     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: 15578674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2012.030     Document Type: Article

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