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From VAP to VAE: Implications of the New CDC Definitions on a Burn Intensive Care Unit Population
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 April 2017
Abstract
Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a frequent complication of severe burn injury. Comparing the current ventilator-associated event-possible VAP definition to the pre-2013 VAP definition, we identified considerably fewer VAP cases in our burn ICU. The new definition does not capture many VAP cases that would have been reported using the pre-2013 definition.
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2017;38:867–869
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