ventilator-free days, in-hospital mortality of VAP patients and in-hospital mortality ICU patients are shown in Table 1. Getting to zero VAP for one or more months has occurred since 2009 when ...

Researchers from Amsterdam UMC have found a new mechanism explaining diaphragm weakness that arises during mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit (ICU). These findings were published in ...

This ventilator bundle was monitored each weekday by an ICU nurse. She intervened in this ... These CDC process measures were audited twice yearly in a small sample of mechanically ventilated ...