%0 Journal Article
%T Ventilator-associated events: prevalence and mortality in Japan
%A Chizuru Yamashita
%A Hideaki Imanaka
%A Hiroshi Imai
%A Masami Yanagisawa
%A Masanori Shima
%A Nobuaki Shime
%A Shinichiro Ohshimo
%A Susumu Nakahashi
%A Tomoko Satou
%A Tomomi Yamada
%A Toru Ogura
%A for the VAEs Review Committee in the Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine (JSICM)
%J SCIE-indexed Journal
%D 2018
%R 10.21037/jtd.2018.12.40
%X In 2013, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)/the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) issued new surveillance algorithms for ventilator-associated events (VAEs) (1). VAEs are comprehensive respiratory complications that occur in conjunction with use of mechanical ventilation (MV). The VAE definition was developed as a new indicator of quality of care in intensive care unit (ICU) to replace previously used ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) (2-4). Its advantages are all objective, simple, and potentially automatable. CDC/NHSN has placed emphasis on shifting surveillance away from traditional VAP to VAEs to eliminate subjectivity in surveillance (5-8). Because of promulgation of VAEs, a number of studies have been conducted in the United States and other Western countries (9-14) to evaluate its practicality as a quality indicator (QI) in ICU. The recent reports demonstrated that VAEs were associated with prolonged use of MV (11,15,16) prolonged ICU stay (2,12,17) and increased mortality (15,18,19)
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