• 1. Hospital Infection Control Office, the Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210008, P. R. China;
  • 2. Hospital Infection Control Department, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, P. R. China;
  • 3. Infection Control Office, Jiangsu Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210000, P. R. China;
  • 4. Infection Management Office, the First People’s Hospital of Changzhou, Changzhou, Jiangsu 213001, P. R. China;
  • 5. Infection Control Center, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, Chengdu, Sichuan 610072, P. R. China;
  • 6. Infection Management Department, East Hospital, Qingdao Municipal Hospital, Qingdao, Shandong 266071, P. R. China;
GAO Xiaodong, Email: gaoxd5@vip.sina.com; HU Bijie, Email: hu.bijie@zs-hospital.sh.cn
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Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a kind of pneumonia that occurs when artificial airway (tracheal intubation or tracheotomy) is established and mechanical ventilation is accepted. The occurrence of VAP will significantly prolong the ventilation time and hospitalization time of patients, increase the mortality rate and the medical burden. In order to effectively prevent and reduce the occurrence of VAP, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America released the Strategies to Prevent Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia, Ventilator-Associated Events, and Nonventilator Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia in Acute-Care Hospitals: 2022 Update, which is an update of the 2014 version. In order to facilitate the reading and understanding of the medical workers, this article will interpret the infection prevention and control strategies of adult VAP and ventilator-related events.

Citation: KONG Yi, GAO Xiaodong, DAI Zhengxiang, RUI Li, WANG Weiwei, DI Jia, CHEN Jing, TAN Shanjuan, HU Bijie. Interpretation of SHEA strategies to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia and ventilator-associated events in acute-care hospitals: 2022 update. West China Medical Journal, 2023, 38(3): 336-345. doi: 10.7507/1002-0179.202301073 Copy

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