VAP - Ventilator Associated Pneumonia: Difference between revisions
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=== Recurrent infection === | === Recurrent infection === | ||
If a patient had a pneumonia previously during the same admission and then develops pneumonia again, meeting the VAP criteria, it is only a VAP if it is a new organism. If it is the same original organism, then the pneumonia has not completely been resolved. Do not code these as a VAP. | If a patient had a pneumonia previously during the same admission and then develops pneumonia again, meeting the VAP criteria, it is only a VAP if it is a '''new organism'''. If it is the same original organism, then the pneumonia has not completely been resolved. Do not code these as a VAP. | ||
===Long term ventilator patients with pneumonia=== | ===Long term ventilator patients with pneumonia=== | ||