Applicability of the National Healthcare Safety Network's surveillance definition of ventilator-associated events in the surgical intensive care unit: A 1-year review

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Mechanical Ventilators 100%
• Critical Care 83%
• Intensive Care Units 78%
• Delivery of Health Care 57%
• Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia 56%
• Safety 55%
• soquinolol 13%
• Pneumonia 10%
• Lung 10%
• Infections 9%
• Organ Dysfunction Scores 8%
• Positive-Pressure Respiration 7%
• Bronchoalveolar Lavage 6%
• Critical Illness 5%
• Ventilation 5%
• Catheters 4%
• Stem Cells 4%
• Pressure 4%
• Population 2%