Association of Patient Care with Ventilator-Associated Conditions in Critically Ill Patients: Risk Factor Analysis.

Ventilator-associated conditions (VACs), for which new surveillance definitions and methods were issued by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), are respiratory complications occurring in conjunction with the use of invasive mechanical ventilation and are related to adverse outcomes i...

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Main Authors: Susumu Nakahashi, Tomomi Yamada, Toru Ogura, Ken Nakajima, Kei Suzuki, Hiroshi Imai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4822937?pdf=render