{"id":62,"date":"2016-11-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/ventilator-associated-pneumonia-not-going-down\/"},"modified":"2017-08-31T18:29:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T22:29:52","slug":"ventilator-associated-pneumonia-not-going-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/ventilator-associated-pneumonia-not-going-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Ventilator-associated pneumonia not going down?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Infections at hospitals can wreak havoc on patient health. So, one would hope instances of hospital-acquired infections would be trending down. Given this, the results of a recent study are something some might find quite discouraging. The results suggest that, when it comes to one particular type of hospital-related infection, not much progress has been made on cutting down on its occurrence over the past decade.<\/p>\n<p>This infection is ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). This is a type of infection connected to the use of respirators at hospitals. The study looked at data on certain patients to make an estimate of how common of a complication VAP is. It estimates that, among patients who are on a respirator for over 48 hours at acute-care hospitals, around one-tenth end up getting VAP.<\/p>\n<p>The study further suggests that the occurrence rate of this infection has been holding at around this level for at least the past decade. This brings into question some federal data that had pointed to the occurrence of VAP possibly going down. According to the study\u2019s lead author, factors such as: the possibility of reporting bias, variation in reporting standards and the difficultly of detecting VAP are among the things that could have led to the federal data suggesting a decline that wasn\u2019t actually present.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/ventilator-associated-pneumonia-not-going-down\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Ventilator-associated pneumonia not going down?\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infections at hospitals can wreak havoc on patient health. So, one would hope instances of hospital-acquired infections would be trending down. Given this, the results of a recent study are something some might find quite discouraging. The results suggest that, when it comes to one particular type of hospital-related infection, not much progress has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hospital-negligence","tag-hospital-negligence"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ventilator-associated pneumonia not going down? &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; November 18, 2016<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ventilator-associated pneumonia not going down? - Hospital Negligence - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/ventilator-associated-pneumonia-not-going-down\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ventilator-associated pneumonia not going down? 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