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1956. Reduction in Endotracheal Aspirate Cultures after Implementation of a Diagnostic Stewardship Intervention in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

BACKGROUND: Clinicians obtain endotracheal aspirate (ETA) cultures from mechanically ventilated patients in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) for the evaluation of ventilator-associated infection (i.e., tracheitis or pneumonia). Positive cultures prompt clinicians to treat with antibiotics ev...

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Autores principales: Sick-Samuels, Anna, Bergmann, Jules, Linz, Matthew, Fackler, James, Berenholtz, Sean, Dwyer, Joe, Hoops, Katherine, Colantuoni, Elizabeth, Milstone, Aaron
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6808819/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz359.133