Journal article
Therapy for ventilator-associated pneumonia: Pneumonia
Clinics in chest medicine, Vol.20(3), pp.681-691
1999
DOI: 10.1016/S0272-5231(05)70244-6
PMID: 10516912
Abstract
Pneumonia is a serious complication of mechanical ventilation. Pneumonia occurs despite the best efforts at prevention. Multiple methods available to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia are reviewed, and ventilation-associated pneumonia (VAP) is divided into early versus late onset. The authors discuss the organisms associated with each of these situations, the empiric antibiotic choices, and specific issues related to antibiotic therapy such as resistance, pharmcodynamics, tissue penetration, and types of modifications necessary in empiric choice when the cause of VAP is identified.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Therapy for ventilator-associated pneumonia: Pneumonia
- Creators
- A. B CARTER - Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Medicine, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United StatesD. B HORNICK - Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Medicine, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Clinics in chest medicine, Vol.20(3), pp.681-691
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- DOI
- 10.1016/S0272-5231(05)70244-6
- PMID
- 10516912
- ISSN
- 0272-5231
- eISSN
- 1557-8216
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1999
- Academic Unit
- Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Medicine; Radiation Oncology; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984094599702771
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