Managing ventilator-associated pneumonia.
Management of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) requires instituting preventive strategies, rapid and correct diagnosis and treatment, appropriate dosing and duration of antibiotics, and accurate assessment of response, i.e., identifying super-infection, resistance, toxicity and microbiologic failure. Taken together, these steps can improve mortality.
D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D053717:Pneumonia, Ventilator-Associated / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control*