Ventilator bundles (VAP bundles) not evidence-based, shouldn't be standard care
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(image: Wikipedia) Anyone who has ever rounded in an ICU with a nurse manager knows that challenging or questioning the utility of the ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) bundle is a losing proposition -- one likely to get you labeled as a wiseguy troublemaker. Thanks to ventilator bundles' endorsement by the nonprofit Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and their consideration by policymakers as a pay for performance measure, hospital administrators have scrambled to implement ventilator bundles with almost the force of law. You might assume that all this effort is based on convincing evidence that VAP bundles improve outcomes and mechanically ventilated patients. But according to
Ventilator bundles (VAP bundles) not evidence-based, shouldn't be standard care
Ventilator bundles (VAP bundles) not…
Ventilator bundles (VAP bundles) not evidence-based, shouldn't be standard care
(image: Wikipedia) Anyone who has ever rounded in an ICU with a nurse manager knows that challenging or questioning the utility of the ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) bundle is a losing proposition -- one likely to get you labeled as a wiseguy troublemaker. Thanks to ventilator bundles' endorsement by the nonprofit Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and their consideration by policymakers as a pay for performance measure, hospital administrators have scrambled to implement ventilator bundles with almost the force of law. You might assume that all this effort is based on convincing evidence that VAP bundles improve outcomes and mechanically ventilated patients. But according to