Ventilator associated pneumonia
Analyze of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia
... Aim: Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is the infection that is an impor- tant cause of morbidity and mortality developed in patients whom the inva- sive mechanical ventilation (MV) were ...
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Incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia in an intensive care unit Incidência de pneumonia associada à ventilação mecânica em uma Unidade de Terapia Intensiva
... Objective: To identify the incidence of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP) in hospitalized patients in an intensive care unit. Method: This is a cross-sectional, documentary and retrospective ...
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Knowledge of Critical Care Provider on Prevention of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia
... in ventilator-associated pneumonia are pharyngeal colonization, micro aspi- ration, and exogenously acquired ...tor associated pneumonia accounts for about 47% of infections in patients ...
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STUDY OF MICROBIOLOGICAL SURVEILLANCE AND ANTIBIOTIC STEWARDSHIP IN VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA
... Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP) continues to be a major problem in critically ill patients. Despite advances in antimicrobial therapy, supportive care and infection control measures, VAP cause ...
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Clinical outcomes related to the incidence of ventilator- associated pneumonia in adults – a cohort study
... Introduction: Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP) is a common complication found in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and is associated with increased mortality, length of hospital stay and ...
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Experimental Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: Distribution of Lung Infection and Consequences for Lung Aeration
... Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) has been described in humans and in experimental animals. The most severe lesions are located in dependent lung segments along a sterno-vertebral axis, however ...
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Ventilator-associated pneumonia agents in Brazilian Neonatal Intensive Care Units – a systematic review
... Introduction: Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is one of the most common healthcare- associated infections (HAI) in neonates admitted in neonatal intensive care units ...
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Ventilator-associated pneumonia: epidemiology and impact on the clinical evolution of ICU patients
... Objective: Although ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a major cause of nosocomial infection, its role in the prognosis of patients remains undefined. The objective of this study was to ...
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Developing a gene expression model for predicting ventilator-associated pneumonia in trauma patients: a pilot study.
... Methodology/Principal Findings: The goal was to begin constructing a model for VAP prediction in critically-injured trauma patients, and to identify differentially expressed genes in patients who go on to develop VAP ...
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Epidemiological and Microbiological Analysis of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Patients in a Public Teaching Hospital
... Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is the main cause of nosocomial infection in an intensive-care ...rates associated with this condition are high, from 25% to 50%, and may reach 70% if the ...
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Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: the Knowledge of Health Professionals Towards Prevention and Educational Measures / Pneumonia Associada à Ventilação Mecânica: Conhecimento dos Profissionais de Saúde Acerca da Prevenção e Medidas Educativas
... of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in critically ill patients admitted to Intensive Care Units (ICUs), and also to promote Continuing Education (CE) for ICUs’ professionals on VAP ...
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Incidence, risk factors, and outcome of ventilator-associated Pneumonia in 18 hospitals of Iran. Running title: ventilator-associated pneumonia in Iran
... Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia is the second most common nosocomial infection and the first most common infection in Intensive Care Units ...of ventilator- associated pneumonia ...
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Diagnostic investigation of ventilator-associated pneumonia using bronchoalveolar lavage: comparative study with a postmortem lung biopsy
... The purpose of the present study was to validate the quantitative culture and cellularity of bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) for the diag- nosis of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). A prospective ...
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Control of multi-resistant bacteria and ventilator-associated pneumonia: is it possible with changes in antibiotics?
... Potent antimicrobial agents have been developed as a response to the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which especially affect patients with prolonged hospitalization in Intensive Care Units (ICU) and who had ...
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The Effect of a Designed Respiratory Care Program on the Incidence of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: A Clinical Trial
... 20. Chao YFC, Chen YY, Wang KWK, Lee RP, Tsai H. Removal of oral secretion prior to position change can reduce the incidence of ventilator ‑associated pneumonia for adult ICU patients: a clinical ...
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Evaluation of the Effects of Oronasal Versus Oral Disinfections with Chlorhexidine on Clinical Criteria of Ventilator-associated Pneumonia
... (1). Ventilator- associated pneumonia (VAP) is the most prevalent and lethal form of nosocomial infection in the ICU ...nosocomial pneumonia and occurs in approximately 10-20% of patients ...
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Prevalence and clinical outcomes of episodes of ventilator-associated pneumonia caused by SPM-1-producing and non-producing imipenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa
... Introduction: Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a leading cause of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) and exhibits high rates of resistance to several antimicrobial drugs. he carbapenens are usually the ...
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Risk factors for early-onset ventilator-associated pneumonia in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage patients
... We also found that use of mannitol was independently associated with VAP. Several studies have found that barbiturate was considered a risk factor for immunosup- pression and VAP in brain-injured patients (5,7,9). ...
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Accuracy of the clinical pulmonary infection score to differentiate ventilator-associated tracheobronchitis from ventilator-associated pneumonia
... used to retrospectively classify patients between VAT and VAP, with all the biological, clinical and radiologi- cal data available to make a final diagnosis. This last point must be considered regarding the frequency of ...
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Insights into interspecies interactions, phenotypic profile and antimicrobial susceptibility in an artificial ventilator-associated pneumonia microbiome
... Results showed that C. albicans was the most affected species by the agents tested, in particular in single biofilms. It is still important to highlight that the significant reductions were observed in particular for ...
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