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Diagnostic accuracy of pulmonary host inflammatory mediators in the exclusion of ventilator-acquired pneumonia

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2014

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Thomas P Hellyer, Andrew Conway Morris, Daniel F. McAuley, Timothy Walsh, Niall Anderson, Suveer Singh, Paul Dark, Alistair Roy, Simon Baudouin, Stephen E. Wright,
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Abstract

Low BALF IL-1β in combination with IL-8 confidently excludes VAP and could form a rapid biomarker-based rule-out test, with the potential to improve antibiotic stewardship.

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