Open AccessAssociation of compliance of ventilator bundle with incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia and ventilator utilization among critical patients over 4 years
Author(s) -
Majid Althaqafy,
Aiman El-Saed,
Yaseen M. Arabi,
Hanan H. Balkhy
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
annals of thoracic medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.639
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1817-1737
pISSN - 1998-3557
DOI - 10.4103/1817-1737.140132
Subject(s) - ventilator associated pneumonia , medicine , bundle , pneumonia , intensive care unit , emergency medicine , incidence (geometry) , prospective cohort study , intensive care medicine , rate ratio , confidence interval , materials science , physics , optics , composite material
Several studies showed that the implementation of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) ventilator bundle alone or with other preventive measures are associated with reducing Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP) rates. However, the association with ventilator utilization was rarely examined and the findings were conflicting. The objectives were to validate the bundle association with VAP rate in a traditionally high VAP environment and to examine its association with ventilator utilization.