IBCC chapter & cast – Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP)

xloma.fota.13 shared this article with you from Inoreader IBCC chapter & cast – Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP) Via EMCrit Blog - Emergency Department Critical Care VAP is a perennial riddle in the intensive care unit.  There are numerous murky diagnostic tests, but no single gold-standard diagnostic test.  Consequently, we are usually left wondering whether or not the patient truly has a VAP.  This makes VAP an unsatisfying diagnosis, as we are continually walking a blurred line between undertreatment and overtreatment. […] EMCrit Project by Josh Farkas. View on the web Inoreader. Take back control of your news feed. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.