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- Title
COMBAT VAT: Preventing Pediatric Ventilator-Associated Tracheitis.
- Abstract
The article presents the implementation and outcomes of the COMBAT VAT, or Change equipment, Oral care, Maintain closed circuit, Bed elevation And Thorough hand hygiene, Ventilator Associated Tracheitis,project at the Seattle Children's Hospital in Washington. It informs the creation of an education module incorporated into the cardiac intensive care unit (CICU). Results revealed a decrease in the VAT rate and the number of central line catheter-associated bloodstream infections in the CICU.
- Subjects
BLOODBORNE infections; CATHETER-related infections; VENTILATOR-associated pneumonia; GOAL (Psychology); TREATMENT effectiveness; PEDIATRICS; ARTIFICIAL respiration; TRACHEAL diseases
- Publication
Critical Care Nurse, 2024, Vol 44, Issue 2, p72
- ISSN
0279-5442
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4037/ccn2024563