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. 2024 Dec;50(12):2185-2187.
doi: 10.1007/s00134-024-07696-x. Epub 2024 Oct 30.

Preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia non-pharmacologically

Manuel Krone  1 , Christian Seeber  2 , Peter Nydahl  3   4
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Preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia non-pharmacologically

Manuel Krone et al. Intensive Care Med. 2024 Dec.
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Conflict of interest statement

Declarations. Conflicts of interest: The authors are members of the Clinical Treatment Guideline Group on Invasive Ventilation and Extracorporeal Gas Exchange in Acute Respiratory Insufficiency under the direction of the German Society for Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (DGAI); the content presented here is partly based on evidence analysis of the not yet finally updated guideline and therefore formally represents the opinion of the authors only. MK receives honoraria from Abbott, GSK, Pfizer, and Sanofi outside of the submitted work. Ethical approval: No ethic approval is required for this work. Statement on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the writing process: Artificial intelligence (AI) was used for language improvement purposes. The tool ChatGPT-4o (OpenAI, San Francisco CA, USA) was used. The actual writing of the manuscript was carried out solely by the authors mentioned by name.

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Implementation of non-pharmacological interventions for preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia. *Due to conflicting/missing evidence for VAP prevention, but might be considered in specific populations or conditions. Physiotherapy should be part of critical care in general because of other beneficial effects. We identified no benefits for tapered cuffs vs. conventionally shaped cuffs, and polyurethane cuffs vs. polyvinyl-chloride cuffs. We identified more harm from using silver-coated endotracheal tubes and tracheal saline installation in immunocompromised patients
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