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Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP)

Medline's 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). ...More
January 3, 2012
Posted in News
Driving Down VAP Rates: One Hospital's 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. ...More
December 7, 2011
Posted in Articles, Policies and Practice
Bundles Emphasized as Part of a Multidisciplinary Team to Address CLABSIs, VAP and Sepsis

Multidisciplinary teamwork is especially critical as hospitals are increasingly following evidence-based practices and care improvement campaigns. ...More
December 7, 2011
Posted in Articles, Policies and Practice
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 ...More
September 6, 2011
Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
Clinical Study on VAP Published in Journal of Critical Care

The Journal of Critical Care has published in its June 2011 edition the findings of a clinical study on mechanical ventilation titled, "A Polyurethane Cuffed Endotracheal Tube is Associated with Decreased Rates of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia." The purpose of the study ...More
July 18, 2011
Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
Kimberly-Clark Launches KimVent Multi-Access Port Closed Suction System

Marking an advance in the fight against ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), Kimberly-Clark Health Care announces its launch of KimVent Multi-Access Port (MAP) Closed Suction Systems. The new system features a compact rotating manifold with multi-access ports, allowing ...More
July 18, 2011
Posted in News
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 ventilator days in 2009 -- in an intensive care unit (ICU). Mandal and Sharma ...More
July 12, 2011
Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
Mercy Hospital Receives HHS Patient Safety Award for Eliminating HAIs

Mercy Hospital, part of Allina Hospitals & Clinics, is only one of four hospitals in the U.S. to be awarded an Outstanding Leadership Award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for achievements in eliminating two types of healthcare-associated ...More
June 14, 2011
Posted in News
Ondine Announces VAP Photodisinfection Clinical Study in the U.S.

Ondine Biomedical Inc., a medical technology company developing photodisinfection-based products, announces that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a human clinical study to investigate the use of photodisinfection for the in-situ microbial disinfection of ...More
May 12, 2011
Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization
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 Healthcare Improvement (IHI). This recommendation, however, is not an ...More
April 11, 2011
Posted in News