Summary of the international clinical guidelines for the management of hospital-acquired and ventilator-acquired pneumonia

Antoni Torres; Michael S Niederman; Jean Chastre; Santiago Ewig; Patricia Fernandez-Vandellos; Hakan Hanberger; Marin Kollef; Gianluigi Li Bassi; Carlos M Luna; Ignacio Martin-Loeches; J Artur Paiva; Robert C Read; David Rigau; Jean François Timsit; Tobias Welte; Richard Wunderink

doi:10.1183/23120541.00028-2018

Summary of the international clinical guidelines for the management of hospital-acquired and ventilator-acquired pneumonia

ERJ Open Res. 2018 Jun 26;4(2):00028-2018. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00028-2018. eCollection 2018 Apr.

Authors

Antoni Torres¹, Michael S Niederman², Jean Chastre³, Santiago Ewig⁴, Patricia Fernandez-Vandellos⁵, Hakan Hanberger⁶, Marin Kollef⁷, Gianluigi Li Bassi¹, Carlos M Luna⁸, Ignacio Martin-Loeches⁹, J Artur Paiva^{10

11}, Robert C Read¹², David Rigau¹³, Jean François Timsit¹⁴, Tobias Welte^{15

16}, Richard Wunderink¹⁷

Affiliations

¹ Dept of Pulmonology, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, IDIBAPS, CIBERES Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
² Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
³ Réanimation Médicale, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France.
⁴ Thoraxzentrum Ruhrgebiet, Kliniken für Pneumologie und Infektiologie, Herne und Bochum, Germany.
⁵ IDIBAPS, CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Barcelona, Spain.
⁶ Dept of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
⁷ Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA.
⁸ Dept of Medicine, Pulmonary Diseases Division, Hospital de Clínicas "José de San Martin", Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
⁹ Dept of Clinical Medicine, Wellcome Trust - HRB Clinical Research Facility, St. James's Hospital, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES).
¹⁰ Emergency and Intensive Care Dept, Centro Hospitalar São João EPE, Porto, Portugal.
¹¹ Dept of Medicine, University of Porto Medical School, Porto, Portugal.
¹² NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, UK.
¹³ Iberoamerican Cochrane Center, Barcelona, Spain.
¹⁴ IAME, INSERM UMR 1137, Medical and Infectious Diseases Intensive Care Unit, Paris Diderot University and Bichat Hospital, Paris, France.
¹⁵ CAPNETZ STIFTUNG, Hannover, Germany.
¹⁶ Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Medizinische Hoschschule Hannover and German Center of Lung Research (DZL), Germany.
¹⁷ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.

Abstract

A summary of the evidence and recommendations made in the ERS/ESICM/ESCMID/ALAT guidelines for the management of hospital-acquired pneumonia and ventilator-associated pneumonia http://ow.ly/S3zA30iZfLa.

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