Getting Started Kit
Updated How-to Guide with instructions for implementing the change in your organization, including changes and measures.
How-to Guide Pediatric Supplement with instructions for implementing the change in a pediatric setting
PowerPoint presentation with Facilitator Notes to introduce and explain the intervention in your organization.
Download a one page summary
Updated Annotated Bibliography
Mentor Hospitals
The organizations on the Mentor Hospital Registry have volunteered to provide support, advice, clinical expertise, and tips to hospitals seeking help with their implementation efforts.
Prevent Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Mentor Hospitals
Tools
Tools for hospitals working to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia.
Frequently Asked Questions about Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
Prevent Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: A Fact Sheet for Patients and Families
Prevent Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: A Fact Sheet for Patients and Families - Spanish Translation
JAMA Patient Pages - Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
Download the Hand Hygiene Getting Started Kit
Measurement Information Forms
Detailed information on the process and outcome measures outlined in the How-to Guide.
VAP Rate per 1000 Ventilator Days
VAP Ventilator Bundle Compliance
Improvement Stories
Read improvement stories and learn how others have succeeded in preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia.
Read about Owensboro Medical Health System's success in reducing VAPs after implementing the Ventilator Bundle
Learn about Swedish Medical Center's efforts to eliminate VAPs
Find out about the University of Rochester/Strong Memorial Health's success in implementing the Ventilator Bundle across their critical care units
Learn about HealthPartners' Regions Hospital's use of the Ventilator and Central Line Bundles
See how hospitals have virtually eliminated Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
View a PowerPoint presentation on Overlake Hospital's participation in the IHI Critical Care Collaborative
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, implemented several “best practices” in the ICU, including the ventilator bundle. They achieved a reduction in the incidence of VAP and a decline in ICU length of stay.
Resources
Other resources available to help your quality improvement efforts.
SHEA's Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals
Join a Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Web Discussion
Improvement Methods
Web-based Training: The Model for Improvement (there is a fee associated with this training)
Call Recordings
Recordings of Campaign calls on preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia.
March 30, 2005 - Informational Call
August 8, 2005 - Follow up call
April 25, 2006 - Office Hour
July 26, 2006 - Office Hour
October 5, 2006 - Office Hour
January 30, 2007 - Office Hour
May 17, 2007 Office Hour
October 30, 2007 - Office Hour
February 4, 2008 - Campaign LIVE!
The Road to Zero VAPs and CLIs
March 4, 2008 - Office Hour
June17, 2008 - Office Hour
September 30, 2008 - Office Hour
Mentor: Baptist Memorial Hospital - Golden Triangle, Handouts (PDF)
National Action Day Materials
On June 20, 2007, over 35,000 participants focused their attention on getting results faster and more reliably. Materials used during the preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia session are available for download.
Prevent Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Session Recording
PPT Slides, Slides as Handouts, Changes Made Worksheet, Changes Planned Worksheet, Blank Planning Worksheet
Contact
For more information contact:
Fran Griffin, RRT, MPA
Email: fgriffin@ihi.org
Phone: (732) 869-0533
Or
Sean Townsend, MD
Email: Stownsend@ihi.org
Phone: 401-444-8424
