Variations in etiology of ventilator-associated pneumonia across four treatment sites: implications for antimicrobial prescribing practices

J Rello, M Sa-Borges, H Correa, SR Leal… - American journal of …, 1999 - atsjournals.org
This retrospective multicenter study compared microorganisms documented by quantitative
cultures from bronchoscopic samples in episodes of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) …

Drug-resistant ventilator associated pneumonia in a tertiary care hospital in Saudi Arabia

HH Balkhy, A El-Saed, R Maghraby… - Annals of thoracic …, 2014 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND: There is a wide geographic and temporal variability of bacterial resistance
among microbial causes of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). The contribution of multi …

Incidence and outcomes of ventilator-associated pneumonia in Japanese intensive care units: the Japanese nosocomial infection surveillance system

M Suka, K Yoshida, H Uno… - Infection Control & Hospital …, 2007 - cambridge.org
Objectives. To determine the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) among
intensive care unit (ICU) patients in Japan and to assess the impact of VAP on patient …

Five-year trends for ventilator-associated pneumonia: correlation between microbiological findings and antimicrobial drug consumption

V Fihman, J Messika, D Hajage, V Tournier… - International journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
The epidemiology of multidrug-resistant bacteria (MDRB) has changed significantly in
European healthcare settings, with a decrease in frequency of meticillin-resistant …

[HTML][HTML] Ventilator-associated pneumonia and its responsible germs; an epidemiological study

R Bozorgmehr, V Bahrani, A Fatemi - Emergency, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Methods: In this cross-sectional study, the medical profiles of all the patients under
mechanical ventilation, who had no symptoms of pneumonia at the time of intubation and …

International conference for the development of consensus on the diagnosis and treatment of ventilator-associated pneumonia

J Rello, JA Paiva, J Baraibar, F Barcenilla, M Bodi… - Chest, 2001 - Elsevier
Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is an important health problem that still generates
great controversy. A consensus conference attended by 12 researchers from Europe and …

Update on ventilator-associated pneumonia

CV Guillamet, MH Kollef - Current opinion in critical care, 2015 - journals.lww.com
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Analysis of risk factors for ventilator-associated pneumonia in a multidisciplinary intensive care unit

DC Sofianou, TC Constandinidis, M Yannacou… - European Journal of …, 2000 - Springer
A prospective study was conducted to determine the incidence, risk factors and pathogens of
ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in 198 patients requiring mechanical ventilation for …

Antimicrobial resistance in ventilator-associated pneumonia: predictive microbiology and evidence-based therapy

A Alnimr - Infectious diseases and therapy, 2023 - Springer
Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a serious intensive care unit (ICU)-related
infection in mechanically ventilated patients that is frequent, as more than half of antibiotics …

Ventilator-associated pneumonia

OT Ranzani, MS Niederman, A Torres - Intensive Care Medicine, 2022 - Springer
Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) has been a known complication in the intensive
care unit (ICU) since the late 1950s. Originally VAP was recognized as a cause of rising …