Suction above cuff endotracheal tube can reduce ventilator-associated pneumonia in COVID-19 patients

Adv Respir Med. 2021;89(1):97-98. doi: 10.5603/ARM.a2021.0025.
No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; endotracheal intubation; mechanical ventilation; suction above cuff; ventilator associated pneumonia.

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • COVID-19 / epidemiology*
  • COVID-19 / therapy
  • Cross Infection / prevention & control
  • Humans
  • Intubation, Intratracheal / methods*
  • Monitoring, Physiologic
  • Pneumonia, Ventilator-Associated / prevention & control*
  • Suction / methods
  • Tracheostomy / methods