Education alone is not enough in ventilator associated pneumonia care bundle compliance

• Main Authors: Hadi Hamishehkar (Author), Mahdi Vahidinezhad (Author), Simin Ozar Mashayekhi (Author), Parina Asgharian (Author), Hadi Hassankhani (Author), Ata Mahmoodpoor (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective: Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) described as a secondary and preventable consequence in mechanically ventilated patients, emerges 48 h or more after patients intubation. Considering the high morbidity and mortality rate of VAP and the fact that VAP is preventable, it seemed necessar...