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 ...

An interrupted time series study was conducted in a 38-bed medical-surgical intensive care unit (ICU) of a tertiary care, private hospital in São Paulo, Brazil. This is an open staffing model ICU ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

Cases of ventilator-associated pneumonia -- the most lethal and among the most common of all hospital-associated infections -- dropped by more than 70 percent in Michigan hospitals where medical staff ...

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 ...

In 2009, the process measures subject to analysis included 2,396 HOB elevation observations (98.6% compliance), 611 ventilator circuits without changes (99.8% compliance) and 611 observations of HMEs ...

Cases of ventilator-associated pneumonia — the most lethal and among the most common of all hospital-associated infections — dropped by more than 70 percent in Michigan hospitals where medical staff ...