Checklist Cuts Lethal Ventilator-Associated Lung Infections
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Ventilator-associated lung injury.
Mechanical ventilation of disease-affected lungs, as well as being an inadequate mode of ventilation for initially healthy lungs, can cause significant changes in their structure and function. In order to differentiate these processes, two terms are used: ventilator-associated lung injury (VALI) and ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI). In both cases, lung injury primarily results from differe...
متن کاملVentilator-associated respiratory infection following lung transplantation.
The medical records of 170 adult patients who underwent lung transplantation between January 2010 and December 2012 were reviewed to assess the incidence, causative organisms, risk factors and outcomes of post-operative pneumonia and tracheobronchitis. 20 (12%) patients suffered 24 episodes of ventilator-associated pneumonia. The condition was associated with mean increases of 43 days in mechan...
متن کاملCould Fiberoptic Bronchoscopy and CT Lung Scan Differentiate Ventilator-Associated Tracheobronchitis From Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia?
while higher than that found in a survey by the American College of Chest Physicians (4.6%).3 Among complications, bleeding occurred most frequently. Most bleeding occurred during brush and forceps biopsies. The death rate was 0.076%. Although the number of hospitals in the survey was relatively small, this was the first nationwide survey on bronchoscopy undertaken in the People’s Republic of C...
متن کاملThe multistep road to ventilator-associated lung abscess: A retrospective study of S.aureus ventilator-associated pneumonia
OBJECT We observed some cases of lung abscess (LA) in ICU patients suffering S.aureus ventilator-associated pneumonia (S.aureus-VAP). We aimed to assess which of the host and/or bacteria-related features are associated with LA. METHODS We conducted a retrospective study from January 2009 to July 2013 in a trauma surgical ICU within a teaching hospital. All adult patients presenting with S.aur...
متن کاملVentilator associated- respiratory infections (VARI), are all the same?
Results Among 115 966 patients hospitalized > 24 h, 91,122 (78.6%) with full information were analyzed. The 55% of them (50,212) were ventilated for 498,316 days. In 6699 (7.4% of total and 13.3% of ventilated) 8,131 VARI were diagnosed of which 4,435 (54.5%) were classified as VAP and 3,696 as VAT. In 3,433 pts 1 or more episodes of VAP were identified and TAV in 2,905 pts. Only 361 pts were r...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Asian Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1992-1462
DOI: 10.3923/aje.2011.33.34