Intensive care medicine
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Intensive care medicine · Aug 2018
LetterPredictors of post-pneumonectomy respiratory failure and ARDS: usefulness of normalized pulmonary artery diameter.
Abstract
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Intensive care medicine · Aug 2018
Assessing predictive accuracy for outcomes of ventilator-associated events in an international cohort: the EUVAE study.
To analyze the impact on patient outcome of ventilator-associated events (VAEs) as defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2008, 2013, and the correlation with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) or tracheobronchitis (VAT). ⋯ Respiratory infections (mainly VAT) were the most common complication. VAE algorithms only identified events with surrogates of severe oxygenation deterioration. As a consequence, IVAC definitions missed one fourth of the episodes of VAP and three fourths of the episodes of VAT. Identifying VAT (often missed by IVAC-plus criteria) is important, as VAP and VAT have different impacts on mortality.