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cord-016521-ouwwkxox	Stevens, Jennifer P.	Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia and Other Complications	2016-07-21		.txt	text/plain	3338	177	32	Ventilator-associated pneumonia occurs in patients who have been intubated for two to three days with significant exposure to hospital-acquired organisms. Patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia should have the duration of antimicrobial therapy guided by type of organism. Other studies have employed the Clinical Pulmonary Infection Score (CPIS) with a cut-off of 6 as a noninvasive method of identifying patients with VAP, using autopsy findings of pneumonia as the gold standard (Table 29 .1) [18] . While clinical suspicion and identification of ventilator-associated pneumonia should remain high, significant controversy has revolved around establishing a reliable epidemiological surveillance definition. Comparison of 8 vs 15 days of antibiotic therapy for ventilatorassociated pneumonia in adults: a randomized trial Randomized trial of combination versus monotherapy for the empiric treatment of suspected ventilator-associated pneumonia Alternative case definitions of ventilator-associated pneumonia identify different patients in a surgical intensive care unit Early physical and occupational therapy in mechanically ventilated, critically ill patients: a randomised controlled trial	./cache/cord-016521-ouwwkxox.txt	./txt/cord-016521-ouwwkxox.txt