Pneumonia, Ventilator-Associated

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Multicenter Pragmatic Interrupted Time Series Analysis of Chlorhexidine Gluconate Bathing in Community Hospital Intensive Care Units. 
  • A compendium of strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections in acute care hospitals: 2014 updates. 
  • Adherence to ventilator-associated pneumonia bundle and incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia in the surgical intensive care unit. 
  • Assessing the relative burden of hospital-acquired infections in a network of community hospitals. 
  • Blurred Lines: Dysbiosis and Probiotics in the ICU. 
  • Burden of healthcare-associated infections among hospitalized children within community hospitals participating in an infection control network. 
  • Changes in intracranial pressure associated with chest physiotherapy. 
  • Clinical MRSA isolates from skin and soft tissue infections show increased in vitro production of phenol soluble modulins. 
  • Collaborative cohort study of an intervention to reduce ventilator-associated pneumonia in the intensive care unit. 
  • Comparison of the burdens of hospital-onset, healthcare facility-associated Clostridium difficile Infection and of healthcare-associated infection due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in community hospitals. 
  • Consensus on Language for Advance Informed Consent in Health Care-Associated Pneumonia Clinical Trials Using a Delphi Process. 
  • Cost Drivers of a Hospital-Acquired Bacterial Pneumonia and Ventilator-Associated Bacterial Pneumonia Phase 3 Clinical Trial. 
  • Critical care clinicians' knowledge of evidence-based guidelines for preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia. 
  • Delayed Sternal Closure in Infant Heart Surgery-The Importance of Where and When: An Analysis of the STS Congenital Heart Surgery Database. 
  • Hospital-acquired Pneumonia and Ventilator-associated Pneumonia in Children: A Prospective Natural History and Case-Control Study. 
  • Implementation of a Sustainable Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Prevention Protocol in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit in Managua, Nicaragua. 
  • Implementation of the TaperGuard™ endotracheal tube in an unselected surgical population to reduce postoperative pneumonia. 
  • Improvements in pulmonary and general critical care reduces mortality following ventilator-associated pneumonia. 
  • Improving Conduct and Feasibility of Clinical Trials to Evaluate Antibacterial Drugs to Treat Hospital-Acquired Bacterial Pneumonia and Ventilator-Associated Bacterial Pneumonia: Recommendations of the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative Antibacterial Drug Development Project Team. 
  • Influence of bronchoscopy on the diagnosis of and outcomes from ventilator-associated pneumonia. 
  • Interrater Reliability of Surveillance for Ventilator-Associated Events and Pneumonia. 
  • Microbiology of ventilator-associated pneumonia compared with that of hospital-acquired pneumonia. 
  • Multidimensional machine learning models predicting outcomes after trauma. 
  • New endotracheal tubes designed to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia: do they make a difference? 
  • Number of rib fractures thresholds independently predict worse outcomes in older patients with blunt trauma. 
  • Potential Cost-effectiveness of Early Identification of Hospital-acquired Infection in Critically Ill Patients. 
  • Prevention of Critical Care Complications in the Coronary Intensive Care Unit: Protocols, Bundles, and Insights From Intensive Care Studies. 
  • Probiotic and synbiotic therapy in critical illness: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Randomized Pilot Trial of Two Modified Endotracheal Tubes To Prevent Ventilator-associated Pneumonia. 
  • Respiratory controversies in the critical care setting. Conference summary. 
  • Respiratory therapies in the critical care setting. Should aerosolized antibiotics be administered to prevent or treat ventilator-associated pneumonia in patients who do not have cystic fibrosis? 
  • Safety, efficacy, and pharmacokinetics of gremubamab (MEDI3902), an anti-Pseudomonas aeruginosa bispecific human monoclonal antibody, in P. aeruginosa-colonised, mechanically ventilated intensive care unit patients: a randomised controlled trial. 
  • Severe traumatic head injury affects systemic cytokine expression. 
  • Silver-coated endotracheal tubes and incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia: the NASCENT randomized trial. 
  • Statewide costs of health care-associated infections: estimates for acute care hospitals in North Carolina. 
  • Strategies to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia in acute care hospitals. 
  • Telavancin hospital-acquired pneumonia trials: impact of Gram-negative infections and inadequate Gram-negative coverage on clinical efficacy and all-cause mortality. 
  • The effect of tracheostomy delay time on outcome of patients with prolonged mechanical ventilation: A STROBE-compliant retrospective cohort study. 
  • The epidemiology of ventilator-associated pneumonia in a network of community hospitals: a prospective multicenter study. 
  • The evolving landscape of healthcare-associated infections: recent advances in prevention and a road map for research. 
  • The growing importance of non-device-associated healthcare-associated infections: a relative proportion and incidence study at an academic medical center, 2008-2012. 
  • The network approach for prevention of healthcare-associated infections: long-term effect of participation in the Duke Infection Control Outreach Network. 
  • The preventability of ventilator-associated events. The CDC Prevention Epicenters Wake Up and Breathe Collaborative. 
  • Use of airway pressure release ventilation is associated with a reduced incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia in patients with pulmonary contusion. 
  • Ventilator Bundle Compliance and Risk of Ventilator-Associated Events. 
  • Ventilator-Associated Conditions: Are the New Definitions "Eliminating the Noise" or Ignoring Important Preconditions?