Collection of tracheal aspirate: safety and microbiological concordance between two techniques

• Main Authors: Oleci Pereira Frota (Author), Adriano Menis Ferreira (Author), Larissa da Silva Barcelos (Author), Evandro Watanabe (Author), Nádia Cristina Pereira Carvalho (Author), Marcelo Alessandro Rigotti (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SciELO, 2014-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective: To evaluate the safety of the performance of the traditional and protected collection techniques of tracheal aspirate and to identify qualitative and quantitative agreement of the results of microbiological cultures between the techniques. Method: Clinical, prospective, comparative, singl...