Pre-emptive antibiotic therapy to reduce ventilator-associated pneumonia: “thinking outside the box”

Mechanically ventilated, intubated patients are at increased risk for tracheal colonization with bacterial pathogens that may progress to heavy bacterial colonization, ventilator-associated tracheobronchitis (VAT), and/or ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). Previous studies report that 10 to 30 %...

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Autores principales: Craven, Donald E., Hudcova, Jana, Lei, Yuxiu, Craven, Kathleen A., Waqas, Ahsan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Commentary
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5041322/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27680980
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13054-016-1472-5

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