Chest
Volume 116, Issue 5, November 1999, Pages 1155-1156
Journal home page for Chest

Editorials
Prevention of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: Does One Size Fit All?

https://doi.org/10.1378/chest.116.5.1155Get rights and content

References (20)

  • J Rello et al.

    Pneumonia due to Heamophilus influenzae among mechanically ventilated patients

    Chest

    (1992)
  • RG Wunderink

    Attributable mortality of ventilator-associated pneumonia

    Sepsis

    (1998)
  • DK Heyland et al.

    The attributable morbidity and mortality of ventilator-associated pneumonia in the critically ill patient

    Am J Respir Crit Care Med

    (1999)
  • C Brun-Buisson et al.

    Treatment of ventilator-associated pneumonia with piperacillin-tazobactam amikacin versus cetazidime/amikacin: a multicenter, randomized controlled trial

    Clin Infect Dis

    (1998)
  • MH Kollef

    The prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia

    N Engl J Med

    (1999)
  • J Valles et al.

    Continuous aspiration of subglottic secretions in preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia

    Ann Intern Med

    (1995)
  • A Torres et al.

    Pulmonary aspiration of gastric contents in patients receiving mechanical ventilation: the effect of body position

    Ann Intern Med

    (1992)
  • JM Sirvent et al.

    Protective effect of intravenously administered cefuroxime against nosocomial pneumonia in patients with structural coma

    Am J Respir Crit Care Med

    (1997)
  • J Rello et al.

    Pneumonia in intubated patients: role of respiratory airway care

    Am J Respir Crit Care Med

    (1996)
  • J-Y Fagon et al.

    Comparison of two diagnostic strategies in patients with a clinical suspicion of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) [abstract]

    Am J Respir Crit Care Med

    (1999)
There are more references available in the full text version of this article.

Dr. Wunderink is Associate Director of Clinical Research, Methodist Healthcare Foundation, and Clinical Associate Professor, University of Tennessee, Memphis.

View full text