
63: HAI School: A Febrile Bundle on Healthcare-Associated Infections #4 - VAP, Crackle, Pop!
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Is There Any Tricks or Life Hacks That You Can Use to Rule Out VAP?
The median time to clinical stability in HAPVAP clinical trials is about four to five days. Anything that normalizes quickly within 24 hours does not generally speaking need to be treated as VAP. The entire concept of periolent secretions in the modern era of medicine is just shockingly subjective, right? But for someone who is clinically stable, a panculture should never have been ordered in the first place.
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