Most Viewed Abstracts
1. Report Shows Shift in Starting Salaries for Physicians 2. 2008 Exclusive Survey—Earnings: Good news for primary care income 3. Medicare pay-for-reporting effort draws fire from frustrated doctors 4. Debunking Myths in the US Healthcare System 5. EGFR inhibitors as first-line therapy in advanced non-small cell lung cancer
Your Article Summary
Study of prone positioning to reduce ventilator-associated pneumonia in hypoxemic patients
European Respiratory Journal , 09/15/09
Mounier R et al. – In ICU patients with hypoxemic acute respiratory failure, PP had no effect on the risk of VAP. PP delayed mortality without decreasing 28–day mortality. PP for longer than 1 day might decrease mortality, particularly in the sickest patients.
Related Articles
Reducing Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Through Advanced Oral-Dental Care: A 48-Month Study
American Journal of Critical Care, 11/06/09
Relevance Score: 67%
Decrease of CD4 lymphocytes and apoptosis of CD14 monocytes are characteristic alterations in sepsis caused by ventilator-associated pneumonia: results from an observational study
Critical Care, 11/06/09
Relevance Score: 66%
Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in a Neurologic Intensive Care Unit Does Not Lead to Increased Mortality
Neurocritical Care, 10/09/09
Relevance Score: 66%
Late-Onset Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in Nontrauma Intensive Care Unit Patients
Anesthesia & Analgesia, 10/23/09
Relevance Score: 65%
Diagnostic importance of pulmonary interleukin-1-beta and interleukin-8 in ventilator-associated pneumonia
Thorax, 10/22/09
Relevance Score: 65%
Today in Critical Care...keeping you current
Receive free subspecialty "5-minute updates" via email
Successful use of high-frequency oscillator ventilation for acute respiratory distress syndrome with pneumomediastinum
Respiratory Medicine CME, 12/03/09
Viral colonization in intubated patients: initial pathogen pattern and follow-up
The Clinical Respiratory Journal, 12/02/09
Clinical findings and demographic factors associated with intensive care unit admission in Utah due to 2009 novel influenza A (H1N1) infection
Chest, 12/02/09
Today in Pulm/Thoracic Infections...keeping you current
Receive free subspecialty "5-minute updates" via email
Review article: influenza A (H1N1) virus in patients with inflammatory bowel disease
Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 12/03/09
Breastfeeding reduces the severity of respiratory syncytial virus infection among young infants
Pediatrics International, 12/03/09
Patterns of Influenza Vaccination among Medical Students
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 12/03/09
Sponsor
Article Search
Sponsor


See Latest Articles


