Antibiotic prescribing for ventilator-associated pneumonia: get it right from the beginning but be able to rapidly deescalate.

What it found

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The trial behind it

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Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Combination therapy versus monotherapy: a randomised pilot study on the evolution of inflammatory parameters after ventilator associated pneumonia [ISRCTN31976779].Critical care (London, England) · 2006
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2. Administration of Bacteriophages via Nebulization during Mechanical Ventilation: In Vitro Study and Lung Deposition in Macaques.Viruses · 2023
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3. Antimicrobial de-escalation in critically ill patients: a position statement from a task force of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) and European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) Critically Ill Patients Study Group (ESGCIP).Intensive care medicine · 2020
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4. Previous endotracheal aspirate allows guiding the initial treatment of ventilator-associated pneumonia.Intensive care medicine · 2009
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5. Can we apply the European surveillance program of nosocomial infections (HELICS) to pediatric intensive care units?Intensive care medicine · 2007
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6. De-escalation therapy rates are significantly higher by bronchoalveolar lavage than by tracheal aspirate.Intensive care medicine · 2007
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7. Prognosis and risk factors of early onset pneumonia in ventilated patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome.Intensive care medicine · 2006
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8. Year in review in intensive care medicine, 2005. II. Infection and sepsis, ventilator-associated pneumonia, ethics, haematology and haemostasis, ICU organisation and scoring, brain injury.Intensive care medicine · 2006
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Corrections and comments

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  Both early-onset and late-onset ventilator-associated pneumonia are caused mainly by potentially multiresistant bacteria.2005

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