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Eliminating VAP in Spinal Cord Injury Patients

The Problem

While all facitilites aspire to limit the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia, doing so within the confines of a spinal cord injury population presents unique challenges. In April of 2008, we had several patients, some of whom had spinal cord injuries and were on ventilators, transferred from our facility to acute carewith pneumonia. We wanted to understand why these patients got pneuomonia so that we could prevent it in the future.

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