Ask the experts. Does the use of a closed suction system help to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia?O

Crit Care Nurse. 2008 Feb;28(1):65-6.

Author

Maureen A Seckel¹

Affiliation

¹ Medical Critical Care/Pulmonary at Christiana Care Health System in Newark, Delaware, USA.

PMID: 18238938

No abstract available

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Cost Savings
Critical Care / methods
Equipment Design
Humans
Infection Control / methods
Pneumonia, Ventilator-Associated* / etiology
Pneumonia, Ventilator-Associated* / prevention & control
Respiration, Artificial / adverse effects
Respiration, Artificial / nursing
Risk Factors
Suction / adverse effects*
Suction / economics
Suction / instrumentation*