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 ...

Background. Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is among the most important hospital-acquired infections in the intensive-care unit setting. However, clinical data regarding the epidemiology of VAP ...

Tracheotomy is a common procedure in critically ill patients who require prolonged mechanical ventilation. The existing oral endotracheal tube is replaced with a percutaneous endotracheal tube that is ...

In a randomized trial involving critically ill patients who had undergone mechanical ventilation for 3 days, a 3-day course of inhaled amikacin reduced the burden of ventilator-associated pneumonia.

NICE has withdrawn technical patient safety solutions for ventilator-associated pneumonia in adults, because the recommended action in section 1.2 on administering oral chlorhexidine is no longer ...

A phenomenon that skilled nursing teams have long appreciated was recently highlighted in a recent article published in JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers Ehrenzeller and Klompas shed light on a ...