Researchers examined the effectiveness of practice bundles on reducing ventilator-associated pneumonia in a recent study published in the journal Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. The study ...
Using a bundled protocol for caring for infants and children with mechanical ventilation may prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia, according to a study in Critical Care Nurse. The authors propose a ...
The VAP bundle was implemented over a period of 2 years and included (a) elevating the head of the bed of ventilated patients to 30˚, (b) preventing venous thromboembolism with the use of sequential ...
Although The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals force many organizations to focus primarily on MRSA, central line-associated bloodstream infections, and surgical site infections, ...
The hospital is a potentially harmful zone as critically ill patients face an added risk of infectious diseases like pneumonia from their breathing tubes. A study of a new multidisciplinary protocol ...
The dashboard developed at Vanderbilt University Hospital improved ventilator bundle compliance by serving as a "hard-wired reminder at the bedside" Ventilator bundles—best practices that are grouped ...
Allan J. Walkey , MD, Christine Campbell Reardon , MD, Carol A. Sulis , MD, R. Nicholas Nace , MD and Martin Joyce‐Brady , MD Objective. To characterize the epidemiology and microbiology of ventilator ...
Patient Safety First, a campaign to make patient safety everyone’s top priority, was launched in June 2008. It currently consists of four clinical and one leadership intervention, and is sponsored by ...
Dr. Okamoto (NCGM) explains about VISTA at the hospital in Vietnam. VISTA (VAP bundle's Ideal System To Aid patients) VISTA can visualize the VAP incidence rate and ventilator days with a time-series ...
According to an article, implementation of a bundle for prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in critically ill infants and children may lead to lower rates of VAP in these patients.
Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a preventable secondary consequence of intubation and mechanical ventilation. VAP is pneumonia that develops in an intubated patient after 48 hours or more of ...
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