Comparison of high-flow nasal cannula versus oxygen face mask for environmental bacterial contamination in critically ill pneumonia patients: a randomized controlled crossover trial

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2019, Pages 84-87

  Leung, C C H ^a   Joynt, G M ^a   Gomersall, C D ^a   Wong, W T ^a   Lee, A ^a   Ling, L ^a   Chan, P K S ^a   Lui, P C W ^b   Tsoi, P C Y ^b   Ling, C M ^a   Hui, M ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Union Hospital   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Bacterial pneumonia; Environmental contamination; Infection control; Infectious disease transmission; Oxygen therapy

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADULT; AIRBORNE BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BREVUNDIMONAS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL OUTCOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPHINGOMONAS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; ADVERSE DEVICE EFFECT; AGED; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CANNULA; CRITICAL ILLNESS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN THERAPY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MASK; MIDDLE AGED; POLLUTION; PREVALENCE; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CANNULA; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; MALE; MASKS; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PREVALENCE;

EID: 85056244436     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: 15322939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2018.10.007     Document Type: Article

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