%0 Journal Article
%T Clinical pulmonary infection score and a spot serum procalcitonin level to guide discontinuation of antibiotics in ventilator-associated pneumonia: a study in a single institution with high prevalence of nonfermentative gram-negative bacilli infection
%A Phunsup Wongsurakiat
%A Sirapat Tulatamakit
%J Archive of "Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease".
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1753466618760134
%X We wanted to determine the impact of combined Clinical Pulmonary Infection Score (CPIS) and a spot serum procalcitonin (PCT)-guided protocol to shorten the duration of antibiotic treatment in patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), mainly caused by nonfermentative gram-negative bacilli (NF-GNB)
%K antibiotic discontinuation
%K clinical pulmonary infection score
%K mechanical ventilation
%K nonfermentative gram-negative bacilli
%K procalcitonin
%K ventilator-associated pneumonia
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5941665/