Ventilator associated pneumonia and infection control

• Main Authors: Alp Emine (Author), Voss Andreas (Author)
• Formato: Libro
• Publicado: BMC, 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<p>Abstract</p> <p>Ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in intensive care units. The incidence of VAP varies from 7% to 70% in different studies and the mortality rates are 20-75% according to the study population. Aspiration of colo...