ReviewAnnals of translational medicine2018
Are tracheal surveillance cultures useful in the intensive care unit?
Review in Annals of translational medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Rapid diagnostic value of next-generation sequencing-based technologies in childhood pneumonia.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Article
- COMPARISON OF TRACHEAL ASPIRATES IN THE PERIOD BEFORE AND AFTER THE START OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT IN A TERTIARY HOSPITAL.Acta clinica Croatica · 2023Article
- Evaluation of Bi-Lateral Co-Infections and Antibiotic Resistance Rates among COVID-19 Patients in Lahore, Pakistan.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Observational
- Association of Endotracheal Aspirate Culture Variability and Antibiotic Use in Mechanically Ventilated Pediatric Patients.JAMA network open · 2021Article
- Clinical significance of microbial colonization identified by initial bronchoscopy in patients with lung cancer requiring chemotherapy.Journal of thoracic disease · 2021Article
- Infections with Carbapenem-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria are a Serious Problem Among Critically Ill Children: A Single-Centre Retrospective Study.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Article
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Abstract
Endotracheal aspirate (ETA) surveillance cultures have been used to predict the microorganisms responsible for ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) in intensive care unit (ICU) patients for 3 decades. However, although more than a dozen studies have been performed, the usefulness and the safety of this strategy are still debated. Tracheobronchial bacterial colonization often precedes the occurrence of VAP, and it has been postulated that the microbes present in the tracheal secretions a few days before VAP might be the same as those retrieved in the lower respiratory tract. A large number of studies, with heterogeneous designs and variable results, have questioned the possibility of predicting, by regular ETA cultures after the 48
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