PHOENIX -- Individualized short-course antibiotic treatment proved noninferior to usual long-course treatment for 60-day mortality and pneumonia recurrence in patients with ventilator-associated ...

Ventilator-associated pneumonia was a frequent complication in mechanically ventilated patients with traumatic brain injury and was independently associated with a significantly higher risk for ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Fewer early ventilator-associated pneumonia cases occurred among patients with brain injury receiving ...

Hospitalization costs for patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia are nearly 1.5-times higher than patients without the infection, according to research published in Infection Control and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Ventilator-associated pneumonia occurred less frequently in patients who received inhaled amikacin vs. placebo.

PHOENIX -- Administering ceftriaxone prophylactically in the intensive care unit (ICU) reduced the risk of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) among patients with an acute brain injury, a randomized ...

Results from a study published in the American Journal of Infection Control showed ventilator-associated pneumonia was the most frequent adverse event related to deaths in the ICU at a university ...

Less is also better – that is what researchers have found while conducting a tri-nation clinical trial to see if shorter courses of antibiotics are as effective as longer prescriptions of the drug to ...

A landmark trial presented at ESCMID Global 2026 shows that improving oral hygiene for hospital patients can reduce the risk ...

Endotracheal tubes (ETTs) are indispensable in the management of critically ill patients requiring mechanical ventilation. However, their use is invariably linked with ventilator-associated pneumonia ...