Researchers examined the effectiveness of practice bundles on reducing ventilator-associated pneumonia in a recent study published in the journal Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. The study ...
Using a bundled protocol for caring for infants and children with mechanical ventilation may prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia, according to a study in Critical Care Nurse. The authors propose a ...
The VAP bundle was implemented over a period of 2 years and included (a) elevating the head of the bed of ventilated patients to 30˚, (b) preventing venous thromboembolism with the use of sequential ...
Although The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals force many organizations to focus primarily on MRSA, central line-associated bloodstream infections, and surgical site infections, ...
The dashboard developed at Vanderbilt University Hospital improved ventilator bundle compliance by serving as a "hard-wired reminder at the bedside" Ventilator bundles—best practices that are grouped ...
Institute for Healthcare Improvement Adds Oral Care Practice to Vent Bundle CARY, Ill., July 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Oral care helps critical care patients defend against ventilator-associated pneumonia ...
Dr. Okamoto (NCGM) explains about VISTA at the hospital in Vietnam. VISTA (VAP bundle's Ideal System To Aid patients) VISTA can visualize the VAP incidence rate and ventilator days with a time-series ...
Allan J. Walkey , MD, Christine Campbell Reardon , MD, Carol A. Sulis , MD, R. Nicholas Nace , MD and Martin Joyce‐Brady , MD Objective. To characterize the epidemiology and microbiology of ventilator ...
Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a preventable secondary consequence of intubation and mechanical ventilation. VAP is pneumonia that develops in an intubated patient after 48 hours or more of ...