If your patient already is critically ill, developing ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) will prolong his hospitalization and recovery and significantly increase the risk of more complications and death. In this article, the authors from the University of South Alabama discuss how you can help prevent VAP from developing and more effectively intervene if it occurs, and how IHI’s 100,000 Lives Campaign has targeted VAP prevention as one of six interventions to prevent avoidable deaths in hospitals.

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