2013-03-28 - Survey Shows Low Compliance with VAPPrevention Practices as Reported by ICU Physicians
On average, 7 percent of patients admitted to intensive-care units (ICUs) suffer from a potentially preventable ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). Lambert, et al. (2013) surveyed for attitudes and practices of ICU physicians in the field of VAPprevention.
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2010-10-26 - Despite Targeted Measures, VAP in the ICU May Be Unpreventable
program for decreasing VAP rates that markedly improved compliance with eight preventive measures... preventive measures, suggesting that eliminating VAP in the intensive care unit may be an unrealistic goal...Acknowledging that ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is the most comm
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2010-12-15 - Medline Targets VAP With Innovative Prevention System Including CHG
Medline Industries, Inc., a privately held manufacturer and distributor of healthcare supplies, today launched an evidence-based solution to help prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP... clinical education. According to the National Healthcare Safety Network, VAP is the second most common
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2011-07-12 - Ventilator Bundle, Other Interventions Reduced VAP Rates in the ICU
Researchers from Fortis Hospital in Mohali, India conducted a study to investigate a high rate of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) -- 18.3 per 1,000 ventilator days in 2008 and 8.6 per 1,000... of VAP through the implementation of ventilator care bundles was taken as one of the quality
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2011-04-11 - Researchers Explore Bed Head Elevation Effect on VAP
A semi-upright position in ventilated patients is recommended to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) and is one of the components in the ventilator bundle recommended by the Institute for Health Care Improvement. This recommendation, however, is not an evidence-based one, asserts Barbara
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2011-12-07 - Driving Down VAP Rates One Hospitals Success Story
Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids, Minn., stands out among its peers. The 271-bed hospital, part of Allina Hospitals and Clinics, has nearly wiped out cases of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) among its intensive care unit (ICU) patients.
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2012-10-02 - Reducing VAP Rates to Near Zero Requires Multiple Interventions and Performance Measures
Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a common infection in the intensive care unit (ICU) and associated with a high mortality. Caserta, et al. conducted a quasi-experimental study in a medical-surgical ICU. Multiple interventions to optimize VAPprevention were performed from October 2008
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2012-01-03 - Medlines Newly Designed Oral Care System Helps Reduce the Risk of VAP
Medline today announced several enhancements to its VAPrevent® oral care program, an advanced oral care management system created to help clinicians complete timely oral care on ventilated patients, which can help reduce the risk of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP).
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2011-09-06 - Early Detection of VAP After ICU Admission is Encouraged
The incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) within the first 48 hours of intensive care unit (ICU) stay has been poorly investigated. Philippe Vanhems, of the infection control unit at Edouard Herriot Hospital in Lyon, France, and colleagues, sought to estimate early-onset VAP occurrence
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2011-05-12 - Ondine Announces VAP Photodisinfection Clinical Study in the US
Ondine Biomedical Inc., photodisinfection-based products, photodisinfection for the in-situ microbial disinfection of endotracheal tubes, ventilator associated pneumonia, VAP, healthcare-associated infections in intensive care unit patients, Food and Drug Administration, FDA
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