CDC releases ventilator-associated events criteria

• Main Author: Robbins RA
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Arizona Thoracic Society 2017-01-01
• Series: Southwest Journal of Pulmonary and Critical Care
• Subjects: ventilator associated; events; pneumonia; VAE; VAP; CDC; Center for Disease Control; oxygen; PEEP; condition
• Online Access: http://www.swjpcc.com/news/2017/1/28/cdc-releases-ventilator-associated-events-criteria.html

No abstract available. Article truncated at 150 words. A new term has been coined by the CDC, ventilator-associated events (VAEs) (1). In 2011, the CDC convened a working group composed of members of several stakeholder organizations to address the limitations of the definition of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) definition (2). The organizations represented in the Working Group include: the Critical Care Societies Collaborative (the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, the American College of Chest Physicians, the American Thoracic Society, and the Society for Critical Care Medicine); the American Association for Respiratory Care; the Association of Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology; the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists; the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee’s Surveillance Working Group; the Infectious Diseases Society of America; and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. VAEs are defined by an increase oxygen (>0.2 in FiO2) or positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) (≥3 cm H2O), after a previous stable baseline of at least 2 …