Prolonged use of ventilator circuits and ventilator-associated pneumonia: a model for identifying the optimal clinical practice

Chest. 1998 Feb;113(2):267-9. doi: 10.1378/chest.113.2.267.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Editorial
  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.
  • Cost Savings
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • Critical Care
  • Equipment Design
  • Equipment Safety
  • Hot Temperature
  • Humans
  • Intubation / economics
  • Intubation / instrumentation
  • Outcome Assessment, Health Care
  • Pneumonia / prevention & control*
  • Practice Guidelines as Topic
  • Time Factors
  • United States
  • Ventilators, Mechanical* / economics