
IBCC Episode 105 - Ventilator Associated Pneumonia
The Internet Book of Critical Care Podcast
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The Seven Steps to Colonization Versus Infection
Possible vap is kind of like a precontemplative phase where you're starting to consider whether or not you think a patient has ventilator associated emmonia. Only about forty or 50 % of them are truly going to have microbiologically confirmed vap, so this is truly probable. Ind depending on how all that dust settles and all the new culture data, they may either the diagnosis could be refuted, or they could progress to a so called confirmed diagnosis of ap.
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