Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (Perspectives on Critical Care Infectious Diseases)
Contributors: Richard D. Wunderink (Editor); Jordi Rello (Editor)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: November 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9780792374442
Subjects: Accident & emergency medicine; Respiratory medicine; Respirators (Medical equipment); Medical / Nursing; Respiratory Therapy; Respiratory Diseases; Respirators (Medical equipment; Medical; Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine; Nosocomial infections; Critical Care; Infectious Diseases; Etiology; Medical / Critical Care; Medical / Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine; Medical-Critical Care; Medical-Infectious Diseases; Complications; Allied Health Services - Respiratory Therapy; Pneumonia
First sentence: As stated in a recent editorial (1): "the diagnosis of nosocomial pneumonia has long been a subject of disagreement, with some intensivists relying on the use of bronchoscopic data to define the presence of lung infection and the responsible organisms, whereas others have used a combination of clinical diagnosis and tracheal aspirate cultures to achieve the same ends (2,3)".