Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia or Not? Contemporary Diagnosis

Autor:	C. Glen Mayhall
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2001
Předmět:	United States Medicine Infectious and parasitic diseases RC109-216
Zdroj:	Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 7, Iss 2, Pp 200-204 (2001)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	1080-6040 1080-6059
DOI:	10.3201/eid0702.700200
Popis:	Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is pneumonia in patients who have been on mechanical ventilation for >48 hours. VAP is most accurately diagnosed by quantitative culture and microscopic examination of lower respiratory tract secretions, which are best obtained by bronchoscopically directed techniques such as the protected specimen brush and bronchoalveolar lavage. These techniques have acceptable repeatability, and interpretation of results is unaffected by antibiotics administered concurrently for infection at extrapulmonary sites as long as antimicrobial therapy has not been changed for
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