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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers found that administering the topical antiseptic chlorhexidine to critically ill patients on mechanical ventilation greatly decreased their daily risk of acquiring deadly hospital-related ...

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 ...