Search Tag: VAE

ICU Management

Ventilator-associated-events-in-mechanically-ventilated-patients

2021 06 Feb

Critically ill patients in the ICU often require life-saving mechanical ventilation. For many, this is an unavoidable intervention, despite the multiple complications associated with it. Ventilator-associated event (VAE) surveillance was proposed in 2013 by a working group of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Three tiers of VAEs...Read more