They're very fragile.” The ventilator that helped Checketts survive was a far cry from what she sees in neonatal units today. “We've gone from a mode of ventilation where you were breathing ...

Objectives: To establish the incidence, etiology, risk factors, and outcomes associated with ventilator-associated pneumonia using an invasive sampling technique to avoid contamination. Patients ...

Setting: A single neonatal intensive care unit. Patients: Neonates requiring conventional mechanical ventilation (n = 50). Interventions: Infants on conventional ventilation were randomly assigned ...