Continuous lateral rotation therapy to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia: the neglected effects of gravity on pathogenesis of ventilator-associated pneumonia

Crit Care Med. 2010 Mar;38(3):1018-9; author reply 1019. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181cc40fc.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Comment
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Bacterial Translocation*
  • Critical Care / methods*
  • Gravitation*
  • Humans
  • Intubation, Intratracheal
  • Moving and Lifting Patients / methods*
  • Oropharynx / microbiology
  • Pneumonia, Ventilator-Associated / microbiology*
  • Pneumonia, Ventilator-Associated / prevention & control*
  • Risk Factors
  • Rotation
  • Trachea / microbiology
  • Treatment Outcome