introduction:ventilator- associated pneumonia(vap),as defined by the centers for disease control and prevention (cdc),is a pneumonia that occurs in a patient receiving mechanical ventilation that develops 48 hours or more after initiation of ventilation.re-intubation which occur within 72 hours of planned extubation may effect vap incidence.the aim of this study was to determine vap incidence i...

PURPOSE To assess the efficacy of subglottic secretion drainage in preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia. METHODS We performed a comprehensive, systematic meta-analysis of randomized trials that have compared subglottic secretion drainage with standard endotracheal tube care in mechanically ventilated patients. Studies were identified by a computerized database search, review of bibliogr...

Ventilator-associated pneumonia is a common nosocomial infection that results in both negative patient outcomes and increased health care costs. Recently, many efforts have been targeted at ventilator-associated pneumonia prevention, including the practice of subglottic secretion aspiration. Six randomized control studies examining the effectiveness of subglottic secretion aspiration in the pre...

Background: Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is the second common nosocomial infection in NICUs leading to some complications. Nurses are one of the main resources in health care that directly influence neonatal health care. Responsibility of most of preventive strategies related to VAP complications lies with nurses; therefore, nursing care should be assessed until the nurses show standar...

BACKGROUND Injury is the leading cause of hospitalization in children, and as many as 5% of hospitalized injured children require mechanical ventilation. Despite this, little is known about the complications associated with mechanical ventilation, including pneumonia. METHODS This is a retrospective analysis of trauma patients younger than 19 years from the National Trauma Data Bank from 2009...

III Einstein International Symposium on Intensive Care and the XXX Mechanical Ventilation. Aug 16-18, 2023. Category: Pneumology Introduction: About 35% of patients admitted to Units (ICU) require mechanical ventilation. Prolonged ventilation predisposes increased risks MV- associated pneumonia, tracheal ischemia, lung damage, diaphragmatic dysfunction. Such problems increase risk mortality com...

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...

Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) increases patient mortality and medical expenditure, and a real-time and reliable method for the rapid diagnosis of VAP may help reduce fatal complications. Matrix metalloproteinases-9 (MMP-9) is considered significant in the pathogenesis of lung inflammation and infection. Therefore, we examined its relationship with the clinical course of VAP. This retros...

We read with interest the observational study by Paula Ramirez et al. [1] discovering the appropriate starting time of antibiotic treatment in patients with ventilatorassociated pneumonia (VAP). In that study, 440 patients receiving mechanical ventilation were screened, but only patients with VAP were studied, including 43 with gradual VAP and 28 with non-gradual VAP, and they suggested that ea...

The medical records of 170 adult patients who underwent lung transplantation between January 2010 and December 2012 were reviewed to assess the incidence, causative organisms, risk factors and outcomes of post-operative pneumonia and tracheobronchitis. 20 (12%) patients suffered 24 episodes of ventilator-associated pneumonia. The condition was associated with mean increases of 43 days in mechan...