Prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia and ventilator-associated conditions

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2015, Pages e527-e528

  Mishra, Shakti Bedanta ^a   Azim, Afzal ^a   Muzzafar, Syed Nabeel ^a  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DEVICE INFECTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; INFECTED VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED CONDITION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LETTER; MECHANICAL VENTILATOR; NEGATIVE PRESSURE VENTILATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; SUCTION; SYRINGE; TRACHEOSTOMY; TRACHEOSTOMY TUBE; TREATMENT DURATION; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; ADVERSE EFFECTS; FEMALE; MALE; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; PROCEDURES;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SUCTION;

EID: 84944453145     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000001184     Document Type: Letter

References (2)

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