Risk Factors for Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
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Prognostic Risk Factors in Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
BACKGROUND Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a nosocomial infection commonly seen in patients in intensive care units (ICU). This study aimed to analyze factors affecting prognosis of patients diagnosed with VAP. MATERIAL AND METHODS Critically ill patients with VAP were retrospectively evaluated between June 2002 and June 2011 in the ICU. VAP diagnosis was made according to 2005 ATS/IDS...
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Ventilator associated pneumonia currently in vogue seems to have some pitfalls as far as the nomenclature is concerned and thus it imparts an erroneous impression to the reader. As the driving force is in fact the ventilator, the phraseology should preferably be changed to ventilator induced pneumonia to convey the in depth meaning of the term thus evading the terminology currently in practice....
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Clinical diagnosis of ventilator-associated pneumonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1034 Bacteriological and histological aspects of ventilator-associated pneumonia . . . . . . . . . . . . 1035 Aetiology of ventilator-associated pneumonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1036 Diagnostic techniques for ventilator-associated pneumonia . . . . . . . . . . ....
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عنوان ژورنال: Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0899-823X,1559-6834
DOI: 10.1017/s0195941700086938