Optimizing surveillance for pediatric ventilator-associated events-But are they preventable?

Anna C Sick-Samuels^{1

2}, Gregory P Priebe^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
² Department of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland.
³ Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

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Anna C Sick-Samuels et al. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2023 Feb.

. 2023 Feb;44(2):175-177.

doi: 10.1017/ice.2022.121. Epub 2022 May 25.

Anna C Sick-Samuels^{1

2}, Gregory P Priebe^{3

4}

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
² Department of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland.
³ Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

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Epidemiology and outcomes of ventilator-associated events in critically ill children: Evaluation of three different definitions.
Papakyritsi D, Iosifidis E, Kalamitsou S, Chorafa E, Volakli E, Peña-López Y, Sdougka M, Roilides E. Papakyritsi D, et al. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2023 Feb;44(2):216-221. doi: 10.1017/ice.2022.97. Epub 2022 May 4. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2023. PMID: 35506391

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