Diagnosis of nosocomial pneumonia in intensive care unit patients

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases : Official Publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology
J ChastreC Gibert

Abstract

The optimal technique for diagnosing nosocomial bacterial pneumonia in critically ill patients cared for in the intensive care unit remains unclear, especially in the subgroup of patients requiring mechanical ventilation. An important advance has been the development of the protected specimen brush technique. We and others have demonstrated that secretions obtained using this technique and evaluated by quantitative cultures are useful in distinguishing patients with and without pneumonia. However, this procedure has important limitations in that results are not available immediately and in that a few false negative or false positive results may be observed. Recently, the use of bronchoalveolar lavage has been suggested to be of value in establishing the diagnosis of pneumonia, since the cells and liquid recovered can be examined microscopically immediately after the procedure and are also suitable for quantitative culture. We believe that microscopic identification of bacteria within cells recovered by lavage may provide a sensitive and specific means for early and rapid diagnosis of pneumonia in this setting and that the lavage technique can be conveniently incorporated into a protocol along with the quantitative culture of sa...Continue Reading

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