Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia
Volume 17, Issue 1 , Pages 22-28 , February 2003

Ventilator-associated pneumonia: Incidence, risk factors, outcome, and microbiology

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☆ Address reprint requests to Yatin Mehta, MD, DNB, FRCA, FAMS, Department of Anaesthesiology, Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre, New Delhi 110 025, India. E-mail: yatinmehta@hotmail.com

PII: S1053-0770(02)47704-X

doi: 10.1053/jcan.2003.4

Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia
Volume 17, Issue 1 , Pages 22-28 , February 2003

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