{"title":"Managing ventilator-associated pneumonia.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Management of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) requires instituting preventive strategies, rapid and correct diagnosis and treatment, appropriate dosing and duration of antibiotics, and accurate assessment of response, i.e., identifying super-infection, resistance, toxicity and microbiologic failure. Taken together, these steps can improve mortality.</p>","PeriodicalId":79683,"journal":{"name":"Materials management in health care","volume":"19 1","pages":"27-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Materials management in health care","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Management of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) requires instituting preventive strategies, rapid and correct diagnosis and treatment, appropriate dosing and duration of antibiotics, and accurate assessment of response, i.e., identifying super-infection, resistance, toxicity and microbiologic failure. Taken together, these steps can improve mortality.