Procedural and educational interventions to reduce ventilator-associated pneumonia rate: two years of a national registration programme

Objectives This retrospective study was undertaken to see whether implementation of the evidence based practices as a bundle would influence compliance and reduce the rates of VAP without necessary resorting to more expensive interventions such as subglottic endotracheal (ET) tube suctioning or for example silver-impregnated ET tubes. We utilized easily collectable data to rapidly assess whether interventions already in place were effectively successfully applied. This avoided cumbersome data collection and review.