VAP - Ventilator Associated Pneumonia: Difference between revisions
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These patients can develop VAP if all other criteria are met and MRSA is cultured in their endotracheal secretions. They are not excluded because of previous colonization. | These patients can develop VAP if all other criteria are met and MRSA is cultured in their endotracheal secretions. They are not excluded because of previous colonization. | ||
=== [[:Category:Yeast/fungus | Yeast]] in Sputum & VAP=== | ==== [[:Category:Yeast/fungus | Yeast]] in Sputum & VAP ==== | ||
Sputum +ve yeast: '''Do not code as a yeast associated VAP'''. This is considered to be colonization unless ''treated specifically.'''Not a VAP if yeast also at other sites; so basically don’t ever code as a cause of VAP or pneumonia. | Sputum +ve yeast: '''Do not code as a yeast associated VAP'''. This is considered to be colonization unless ''treated specifically.'''Not a VAP if yeast also at other sites; so basically don’t ever code as a cause of VAP or pneumonia. | ||
As a general rule, yeast does not cause pneumonia at all except in immunosuppressed patients in which case they have disseminated infection with yeast at many sites (ie multiple sites other than lung will be positive).-Posted by [[User:TOstryzniuk|Trish Ostryzniuk]] 12:09, 2012 October 4 (CDT), on behalf of Dr. Kumar and reviewed by Dr. Olafson. | As a general rule, yeast does not cause pneumonia at all except in immunosuppressed patients in which case they have disseminated infection with yeast at many sites (ie multiple sites other than lung will be positive).-Posted by [[User:TOstryzniuk|Trish Ostryzniuk]] 12:09, 2012 October 4 (CDT), on behalf of Dr. Kumar and reviewed by Dr. Olafson. | ||
[[Category:Yeast/fungus]] | [[Category:Yeast/fungus]] | ||
===Arrived with community acquired pneumonia and develops VAP=== | ===Arrived with community acquired pneumonia and develops VAP=== | ||