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Critical Care
Published in: Critical Care 1/2017

Open Access 01-12-2017 | Letter

How to remove the grey area between ventilator-associated pneumonia and ventilator-associated tracheobronchitis?

Authors: Yuetian Yu, Cheng Zhu, Chunyan Liu, Yuan Gao

Published in: Critical Care | Issue 1/2017

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Excerpt

We read with great interest the study performed by Paula Ramirez and colleagues [1]. The study included 71 patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) and the authors coined a new term called “gradual VAP”. The result of this study indicated that an early antibiotic treatment for patients with gradual VAP was associated with an increased rate of early clinical response. Based on the results of previous studies and our observational data, we would like to make some comments. …
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Metadata
Title
How to remove the grey area between ventilator-associated pneumonia and ventilator-associated tracheobronchitis?
Authors
Yuetian Yu
Cheng Zhu
Chunyan Liu
Yuan Gao
Publication date
01-12-2017
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Critical Care / Issue 1/2017
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13054-017-1754-6

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