Use of Ventilator Bundle and Staff Education to Decrease Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in Intensive Care Patients
Author(s) -
Maria Cândida Ribeiro Parisi,
Vasiliki Gerovasili,
Stavros Dimopoulos,
Efstathia Kampisiouli,
Christina Goga,
Efstathia Perivolioti,
Athina Argyrοpoulou,
Christina Routsi,
Sotirios Tsiodras,
Serafim Nanas
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
critical care nurse
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.342
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1940-8250
pISSN - 0279-5442
DOI - 10.4037/ccn2016520
Subject(s) - ventilator associated pneumonia , medicine , intensive care unit , mechanical ventilation , incidence (geometry) , pneumonia , intensive care , emergency medicine , intensive care medicine , anesthesia , optics , physics
Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), one of the most common hospital-acquired infections, has a high mortality rate.
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