DOI: 10.1055/s-00000075

Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Issue 03 · Volume 38 · June 2017 DOI: 10.1055/s-007-34133 Controversies and Evolving Concepts in Hospital Acquired Pneumonia Guest editors: Jean Chastre, MD, and Charles-Edouard Luyt, MD, PhD.

Preface

  • 235
    Chastre, Jean; Luyt, Charles-Edouard:

    Controversies and Evolving Concepts in Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia

    • Review Article

  • 237
    Nair, Girish B.; Niederman, Michael S.:

    Using Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Rates as a Health Care Quality Indicator: A Contentious Concept

  • 245
    Hassinger, Taryn E.; Sawyer, Robert G.:

    Should We Immediately Start Antibiotics in Every Patient with a Clinical Suspicion of HAP/VAP?

  • 253
    Kollef, Marin H.; Burnham, Carey-Ann D.:

    Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: The Role of Emerging Diagnostic Technologies

  • 264
    Martin-Loeches, Ignacio; Coakley, John Davies; Nseir, Saad:

    Should We Treat Ventilator-Associated Tracheobronchitis with Antibiotics?

  • 271
    Sulaiman, Helmi; Abdul-Aziz, Mohd H.; Roberts, Jason A.:

    Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamics-Optimized Antimicrobial Therapy in Patients with Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia/Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia

  • 287
    Timsit, Jean-François; Pilmis, Benoit; Zahar, Jean-Ralph:

    How Should We Treat Hospital-Acquired and Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Caused by Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase–Producing Enterobacteriaceae?

  • 301
    Bassetti, Matteo; Peghin, Maddalena; Carnelutti, Alessia; Righi, Elda:

    How Should We Treat HAP/VAP Caused by Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae?

  • 311
    Lynch, Joseph P.; Zhanel, George G.; Clark, Nina M.:

    Infections Due to Acinetobacter baumannii in the ICU: Treatment Options

  • 326
    Lynch, Joseph P.; Zhanel, George G.; Clark, Nina M.:

    Emergence of Antimicrobial Resistance among Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Implications for Therapy

  • 346
    François, Bruno; Luyt, Charles-Edouard; Stover, C. Kendall; Brubaker, Jeffery O.; Chastre, Jean; Jafri, Hasan S.:

    New Strategies Targeting Virulence Factors of Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa

  • 359
    Palmer, Lucy B.; Rello, Jordi:

    Is There a Role for Inhaled Antibiotics in the Treatment of Ventilator-Associated Infections?

  • 371
    Bassi, Gianluigi Li; Xiol, Eli Aguilera; Pagliara, Francesco; Hua, Yang; Torres, Antoni:

    Body Position and Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Prevention

  • 381
    Klompas, Michael:

    Oropharyngeal Decontamination with Antiseptics to Prevent Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: Rethinking the Benefits of Chlorhexidine