Is Ventilator-associated Event Algorithm Ideal for Surveillance? – Experience from a Neurosurgery Intensive Care Unit in Kerala

Is Ventilator-associated Event Algorithm Ideal for Surveillance? – Experience from a Neurosurgery Intensive Care Unit in Kerala

Background: The ventilator-associated event (VAE) surveillance algorithm was brought in to replace the clinical ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) surveillance by NHSN in January 2013. This study intends to find the correlation of these surveillance criteria with the clinical VAP rates in a neuro...

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Main Authors: Lisha Pallivalappil, Daksh Sharma, P. S. Nishanth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2024-11-01
Series:Journal of Advanced Lung Health
Subjects:
acinetobacter baumannii
intensive care unit
multidrug-resistant organism
surveillance
ventilator-associated event
ventilator-associated pneumonia
Online Access:https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/jalh.jalh_18_24
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