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Ventilator associated pneumonia
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| On Aug 12 2006 10:16AM susan wrote: |
| Has anybody got a definition that they are currently using and would be willing to share? |
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| On Sep 4 2006 8:32PM jb4848 wrote: |
Susan
Does this help?
From Canada: www.cdc.gov.............
VAP has been classified into either early-onset pneumonia (EOP), if
pneumonia develops within 96 hours of the patient"s admission to an ICU or
intubation for mechanical ventilation, and late-onset pneumonia (LOP), if
pneumonia develops after 96 hours of the patient"s admission to an ICU or
intubation for mechanical ventilation.
Not a definition per se, but because the pathogenesis is so hard to pin down
( ie. were the pathogens insitu pre-ventilation, were they translocated from
various sites with the most suspect route being micro-aspiration from the
oropharynx etc. etc.) I find it hard to locate a simple definition in our
literature.
Jane Barry
Victoria, B.C.
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