Search Tag: ventilator-associated events
2017 28 May
Nearly 800,000 hospital patients undergo mechanical ventilation in the U.S. each year due to different illnesses such as stroke, brain injury or pneumonia. Going on a ventilator can often be the difference between life and death for some patients. While a ventilator does provide assistance in breathing, it is also associated with certain risks that...Read more
2016 01 Nov
A systematic review and meta-analysis of studies reporting consistency between ventilator-associated events and ventilator-associated pneumonia found that VAE surveillance was not accurate at detecting cases of traditional VAP in ICUs. The study is published in Critical Care . The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Healthcare...Read more
2016 27 Sep
Ventilator-associated pneumonia is a major complication of mechanical ventilation and represents the most common reason for antibiotic prescription in ventilated patients. Incidence ranges from 1.2 to 8.5 cases per 1000 ventilator days or 9 to 27% cases per mechanically ventilated patient; attributable mortality rates vary between 0% and 70%...Read more