DOI: 10.1055/s-00000075

Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Issue 05 · Volume 23 · 2002 DOI: 10.1055/s-002-2276 Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia Editor in Chief Joseph P. Lynch III M.D., Guest Editor Mark J. Rumbak M.D.

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Continuing Medical Education
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Patel, Paresh J.; Leeper Jr , Kenneth V.; McGowan Jr , John E.: Epidemiology and Microbiology of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia
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Rumbak, Mark J.: The Pathogenesis of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
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Sirgo, Gonzalo; Bodí, Maria; Díaz, Emili; Rello, Jordi: Pneumonia in Head-Injured and Severe Trauma Patients
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Wunderink, Richard G.; Waterer, Grant W.: Pneumonia Complicating the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
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Guillemot, Didier; Crémieux, Anne Claude; Courvalin, Patrice: Evolution of Antimicrobial Resistance: Impact on Antibiotic Use
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Brun-Buisson, Christian: Guidelines for Treatment of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia
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Luna, Carlos M.; Niederman, Michael S.: What Is the Natural History of Resolution of Nosocomial Pneumonia?
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Bonten, Marc J. M.: Strategies for Prevention of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia: Oral and Selective Decontamination of the Gastrointestinal Tract
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Iregui, Manuel G.; Vaughan, William M.; Kollef, Marin H.: Nonpharmacological Prevention of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia
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Raymond, Daniel P.; Pelletier, Shawn J.; Sawyer, Robert G.: Antibiotic Utilization Strategies to Limit Antimicrobial Resistance

PREFACE

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Rumbak, Mark J.: Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia