DOI: 10.1055/s-00000075

Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Issue 01 · Volume 27 · February 2006 DOI: 10.1055/s-002-4703 Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Editor in Chief Joseph P Lynch III M.D., Guest Editor Jean Chastre M.D.

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Continuing Medical Education
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Isakow, Warren; Kollef, Marin H.: Preventing Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: An Evidence-Based Approach of Modifiable Risk Factors
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Bonten, Marc J. M.; Krueger, Wolfgang A.: Selective Decontamination of the Digestive Tract: Cumulating Evidence, at Last?
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Combes, Alain; Luyt, Charles-Edouard; Trouillet, Jean-Louis: Impact of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria on the Outcome of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
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Gibot, Sébastien: Soluble Triggering Receptor Expressed on Myeloid Cells and the Diagnosis of Pneumonia and Severe Sepsis
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Fagon, Jean-Yves: Diagnosis and Treatment of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: Fiberoptic Bronchoscopy with Bronchoalveolar Lavage Is Essential
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Niederman, Michael S.: The Importance of De-escalating Antimicrobial Therapy in Patients with Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
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Kiem, Sungmin; Schentag, Jerome J.: Relationship of Minimal Inhibitory Concentration and Bactericidal Activity to Efficacy of Antibiotics for Treatment of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
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Eggimann, Philippe; Revelly, Jean-Pierre: Should Antibiotic Combinations Be Used to Treat Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia?
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Goldstein, Ivan; Chastre, Jean; Rouby, Jean-Jacques: Novel and Innovative Strategies to Treat Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: Optimizing the Duration of Therapy and Nebulizing Antimicrobial Agents
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Lam, Anna P.; Wunderink, Richard G.: Methicillin-Resistant S. aureus Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: Strategies to Prevent and Treat
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Domínguez, Amalia Alcón; Arango, Mauricio Valencia; Torres, Antonio: Treatment Failure in Patients with Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia

PREFACE

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Chastre, Jean: Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia