Bronchoalveolar lavage for VAP diagnosis: patients must be sampled before any change of antimicrobial therapy

Intensive Care Med. 2007 Oct;33(10):1690-3. doi: 10.1007/s00134-007-0812-y. Epub 2007 Aug 3.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Comment
  • Editorial

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use*
  • Bacteriological Techniques
  • Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid / cytology*
  • Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid / microbiology
  • Humans
  • Pneumonia, Bacterial / diagnosis*
  • Pneumonia, Bacterial / drug therapy*
  • Pneumonia, Bacterial / microbiology
  • Rats
  • Respiration, Artificial*

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents