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Murine Oropharyngeal Aspiration Model of Ventilator-associated and Hospital-acquired Bacterial Pneumonia
Published on: June 28, 2018
A multidisciplinary approach to reducing ventilator-associated events in a busy urban hospital
Jordan Seaver1, Keith Grant1, James Lunn2
1Infection Prevention Department, Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center Hartford, CT.
Abstract:
Acute care hospitals are requested to perform ongoing surveillance of all patients undergoing mechanical ventilation for ventilator-associated events (VAEs), a serious and often devastating complication of the life-saving modality. Poor performance metrics in VAE rates were recognized at a tertiary care hospital in Hartford, Connecticut and as a result, a multidisciplinary team was developed in 2015 to analyze hospital and system data. The program utilized a multifaceted approach to reliably identify and subsequently prevent VAEs.
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