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Am J Infect Control
; 48(7): 828-830, 2020 07.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-32505337
RESUMO
Acute care hospitals are requested to perform ongoing surveillance of all patients undergoing mechanical ventilation for ventilator-associated events (VAEs), a serious and often devastating complication of the life-saving modality. Poor performance metrics in VAE rates were recognized at a tertiary care hospital in Hartford, Connecticut and as a result, a multidisciplinary team was developed in 2015 to analyze hospital and system data. The program utilized a multifaceted approach to reliably identify and subsequently prevent VAEs.