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Antibiotics De-Escalation in the Treatment of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in Trauma Patients

Li Hu, Chunhui Yang, Liou Huang, Yuhui Cui, Dan Xu, Chunrong Wu, Jianguo Tang

Chinese Medical Journal · 2018 · 18 citations · 16 references

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Abstract

De-escalation strategy in the treatment of trauma patients with VAP could reduce the duration of antibiotics treatments and expense of hospitalization, without increasing the 28-day mortality and MDR infection.

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Health Systems, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Healthcare-associated Infection +8

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Critical Care Medicine, Severe Sepsis, Acute Care +8

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