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From VAP to VAE: Implications of the New CDC Definitions on a Burn Intensive Care Unit Population
Anne M Lachiewicz1, David J Weber1, David van Duin1
11Division of Infectious Diseases,University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,Chapel Hill,North Carolina.
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
|April 18, 2017
Abstract:
Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a frequent complication of severe burn injury. Comparing the current ventilator-associated event-possible VAP definition to the pre-2013 VAP definition, we identified considerably fewer VAP cases in our burn ICU. The new definition does not capture many VAP cases that would have been reported using the pre-2013 definition. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2017;38:867-869.