ICU Nurses and Respiratory Therapists - Life Hack Number 4 - What's Going On?

"There are like a bajillion reasons for people to have increased secretions that have nothing to do with pneumonia," he says. ICU nurses and respiratory therapists can give valuable insights into what might be going on in the patient's body. "A gram stain on respiratory cultures is I think one of the most underutilized clinical tools we have in ventilator-associated pneumonia."