Strategies for reducing the time of mechanical ventilation and ventilator-associated pneumonia

Protective Mechanical Ventilation in Inflammatory and Ventilator- Associated Pneumonia Models

Sperber, J. 2016. Protective Mechanical Ventilation in Inflammatory and VentilatorAssociated Pneumonia Models. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1208. 84 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9546-6. Severe infections, trauma or major surgery can each cause a state of systemic inflammation. These causes for systemic infl...

Strategies for the Prevention of Ventilator-associated Pneumonia in the Intensive Care Units: A Review

Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP) accounts for 80%-90% of hospital-acquired pneumonia cases in Intensive Care Units (ICUs). VAP occurs 48-72 hours after intubation, and is observed in 27%-29% of patients with endotracheal tube, and its risk increases with the increase in the duration of mechanical ventilation. In this review study, papers published from 1996-2018 were used to investigate st...

Novel preventive strategies for ventilator-associated pneumonia

Ventilator-associated pneumonia: the role of ventilator management strategies.

Ventilator management strategies can affect the risk for ventilator-associated pneumonia in 3 ways: the development of ventilator-induced lung injury; the need for potentially harmful tradeoffs in providing lung-protective ventilatory strategies; and the prolongation of the duration of mechanical ventilation from iatrogenic factors. Strategies to reduce ventilator-induced lung injury include a ...

From starting mechanical ventilation to ventilator-associated pneumonia, choosing the right moment to start antibiotic treatment

BACKGROUND Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) can have a clear onset or may be a result of the gradual appearance of symptoms and signs of VAP (gradual VAP). The aim of this paper is to describe the VAP development process with the intention of discriminating between those pneumonias with a clear beginning and those that are diagnosed after a period of maturation. In addition, we evaluate th...