VAP publications

Ventilator Associated Pneumonia(VAP)

Original Publications

Invited Publications

Book Chapters

Original Publications

Meduri GU. Diagnosis of ventilator-associated pneumonia in patients with respiratory failure: A diagnostic approach. Chest 1990; 97:1208-1219. (with editorial)

Meduri GU, Beals DH, Maijub AG, Baselski V. Protected bronchoalveolar lavage: A new bronchoscopic technique to retrieve uncontaminated distal airway secretions. Am Rev Respir Dis 1991; 143: 855-864.

Meduri GU, Baselski V. The role of bronchoalveolar lavage in diagnosing non opportunistic bacterial pneumonia. Chest 1991; 100: 179-190. (with editorial)

Meduri GU, Wunderink RG, Leeper KV, Beals DH. Management of bacterial pneumonia in ventilated patients. The role of protected bronchoalveolar lavage. Chest 1992; 101; 500-508.

Meduri GU, Johanson W. Introduction to the First International Conference on the Clinical Investigation of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia. Chest 1992; 102: 551-552S.

Meduri GU, Johanson W. Introduction to the First International Conference on the Clinical Investigation of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 1992;13:633-635.

Meduri GU, Mauldin GL, Wunderink RG, Leeper KV, Jones C, Tolley E, Mayhall G. Causes of fever and pulmonary densities in patients with clinical manifestations of ventilator-associated pneumonia. Chest 1994: 106: 221-235.

Estes R, Meduri GU. Pathogenesis of Ventilator-associated pneumonia: Mechanisms of bacterial colonization and airway inoculation. Intensive Care Medicine 1995; 21: 365-383.
Abstract

Meduri GU, Estes R. Pathogenesis of Ventilator-associated pneumonia: The lower respiratory tract. Intensive Care Medicine 1995; 21: 452-461.
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Louthan F, Meduri GU. Differential Diagnosis of Ventilator-associated Pneumonia Seminars in Respiratory Infections 1996; 11: 77-95.
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Meduri GU, Belenchia JM, Massey JD, Eltorky M. 67Ga scintigraphy in diagnosing sources of fever in ventilated patients. Intensive Care Medicine 1996; 22: 395-403.
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Winer-Muram HT, Steiner RM, Gurney JW, Jennings SG, Arheart KL, Eltorky M, Meduri GU. Ventilator-associated pneumonia in patients with ARDS: CT evaluation. Radiology 1998; 208: 193-198.

George DL, Falk PS, Meduri GU, Leeper KV, Wunderink RG, Steere ES, Beckford N, Mayhall CG. Nosocomial sinusitis in medical intensive care unit patients: a prospective epidemiological study. Clin Infect Dis 1998; 27:463-470.
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George DL, Falk PS, Wunderink RG, Leeper KV, Meduri GU, Steere ES, Corbett CE, Mayhall CG. The epidemiology of nosocomial pneumonia in medical intensive care unit patients: a prospective study based on protected bronchoscopic sampling. Am J Resp Crit Care Med 1998; 158: 1839-1847.
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Invited Publications

Meduri GU, Wunderink RG. Ventilator-associated pneumonia in patients with acute respiratory failure. Intensive Care and Critical Care Digest 1992; 11: 26-29.

Meduri GU. Definitions and diagnostic standards in ventilator-associated pneumonia. Chemotherapy Journal 1995; 4: 1-4.

Meduri GU. Differential diagnosis of fever and pulmonary densities in mechanically ventilated patients. Monaldi Archives 1998; 52; 6: 570-573.Ventilator-Assisted Pneumonia (VAP)

Book Chapters

Meduri GU. Diagnosis of ventilator-associated pneumonia. Infect Dis Clin North Am 1993; 7: 295-329.

Griffin J, Meduri GU. Diagnosis of nosocomial pneumonia: New approaches. Med Clin of North Am 1994; 5: 1091-1122.

Meduri GU. Diagnosis and differential diagnosis of ventilator-associated pneumonia. Chest Clin North Am 1995: 16: 61-93.

Grey S, Meduri GU. Nosocomial Pneumonia. Pulmonary and Respiratory Secrets. Hanley and Belfus. 1997; pages 140-144.

Afessa B, Meduri GU. Pathogenesis and differential diagnosis of fever and approach to the febrile patients in the intensive care unit. Perspective on Critical Care Infectious Diseases –Editors: J Rello, J Valles, M Kollef. Kluwer Academic Publishers 2001 (in press).