Developing a new, national approach to surveillance for ventilator-associated events: Executive summary

摘要

In September 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) convened a Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP) Surveillance Definition Working Group to organize a formal process for leaders and experts of key stakeholder organizations to discuss the challenges of VAP surveillance definitions and to propose new approaches to VAP surveillance in adult patients (Table 1). The charges to the Working Group were to: 1. Critically review a draft, streamlined VAP surveillance definition developed for use in adult patients;