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CRITICAL CARE NURSING QUARTERLY
Volume 29, Issue 3, Pages 253-258Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/00002727-200607000-00011
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ventilator-associated pneumonia; VAP; ventilator pneumonia prevention
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The prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) has been a quality effort that many organizations across the country have undertaken. Through a multidisciplinary approach, the best practices to prevent VAP for our organization were established. Through the interventions of securing the patient resuscitation bag in one location, maintaining the patient's head-of-bed elevation to more than 30. if not contraindicated, Yankauer suction tip care, and the use of chlorhexidine mouth rinse, the incidence of VAP decreased by 43% within a 6-month time frame. Additional ventilator-associated prevention efforts such as sedation and weaning protocols have been established to further enhance preventive efforts.
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