They may also have been admitted to an acute care hospital for ≥2 days in the 90 days before pneumonia or resided in a nursing home or a long-term care facility. Ventilator-associated ...

Image: Table outlining six definitions for ventilator-associated pneumonia. 14. Ego A, Preiser JC, Vincent JL. Impact of diagnostic criteria on the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia. Chest ...

The four-year long REducing Antibiotic tReatment Duration for Ventilator-Associated ... or had pneumonia recurrence. Participants were reviewed daily to assess if they met the criteria to stop ...

Those enrolled met CDC National Healthcare Safety Network criteria for ventilator-associated pneumonia, had been mechanically ventilated for 48 hours or longer, and were administered culture ...

Tailoring treatment duration to clinical response is well established (eg, in community-acquired pneumonia, in which clinical stability criteria are used to cut antibiotic duration). 12 As the authors ...

PHOENIX -- Administering ceftriaxone prophylactically in the intensive care unit (ICU) reduced the risk of ventilator-associated pneumonia ... the trial after meeting criteria for a brain injury ...

Material and Methods: In this retrospective study, patients who were intubated in a tertiary pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and diagnosed with ventilator-associated pneumonia according to CDC ...

Ventilator-associated ... tests and other diagnostic tools are sometimes necessary. Although most people with tracheobronchitis recover on their own, complications such as pneumonia may sometimes ...

Non-ventilator-associated hospital-acquired pneumonia may account ... Limitations of this study include imperfect concordance between NV-HAP surveillance criteria and confirmed pneumonia, the lack of ...