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Ventilator-associated pneumonia. Prevention, diagnosis, and therapy
Sean P Keenan1, Daren K Heyland, Michael J Jacka
1Royal Columbian Hospital, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada.
Critical Care Clinics
|March 26, 2002
Abstract:
Ventilator-associated pneumonia remains the nosocomial ICU infection of greatest concern. The authors have summarized the clinical trials that have assessed specific strategies to prevent VAP and the current controversies regarding the diagnosis and therapeutic approach to this condition. Improvements in care of patients who are at risk for or who have developed VAP will depend on the judicious application of this information for individual patients.