Preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia: evidence-based care

Crit Care Nurs Clin North Am. 2004 Sep;16(3):349-58, viii. doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2004.03.005.

Abstract

Ventilator-associated pneumonia is a common complication of mechanical ventilation with significant morbidity and mortality. This article summarizes the data related to specific risk factors associated with ventilator associated pneumonia (patient position, oral health, airway management, and gastrointestinal factors) and provides recommendations for practice based on the present evidence.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Critical Care / methods*
  • Critical Care / standards
  • Cross Infection / epidemiology
  • Cross Infection / etiology*
  • Cross Infection / prevention & control*
  • Evidence-Based Medicine
  • Humans
  • Infection Control / methods
  • Infection Control / standards
  • Intubation, Intratracheal / adverse effects
  • Intubation, Intratracheal / nursing
  • Monitoring, Physiologic
  • Morbidity
  • Oral Hygiene
  • Pneumonia, Bacterial / epidemiology
  • Pneumonia, Bacterial / etiology*
  • Pneumonia, Bacterial / prevention & control*
  • Practice Guidelines as Topic
  • Prone Position
  • Respiration, Artificial / adverse effects*
  • Risk Factors
  • Suction / adverse effects
  • Suction / nursing