Summary of the international clinical guidelines for the management of hospital-acquired and ventilator-acquired pneumonia

• Antoni Torres,
• Michael S. Niederman,
• Jean Chastre,
• Santiago Ewig,
• Patricia Fernandez-Vandellos,
• Hakan Hanberger,
• Marin Kollef,
• Gianluigi Li Bassi,
• Carlos M. Luna,
• Ignacio Martin-Loeches,
• J. Artur Paiva,
• Robert C. Read,
• David Rigau,
• Jean François Timsit,
• Tobias Welte,
• Richard Wunderink

Affiliations

Antoni Torres

Dept of Pulmonology, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, IDIBAPS, CIBERES Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Michael S. Niederman

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA

Jean Chastre

Réanimation Médicale, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France

Santiago Ewig

Thoraxzentrum Ruhrgebiet, Kliniken für Pneumologie und Infektiologie, Herne und Bochum, Germany

Patricia Fernandez-Vandellos

IDIBAPS, CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Barcelona, Spain

Hakan Hanberger

Dept of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Marin Kollef

Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA

Gianluigi Li Bassi

Dept of Pulmonology, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, IDIBAPS, CIBERES Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Carlos M. Luna

Dept of Medicine, Pulmonary Diseases Division, Hospital de Clínicas “José de San Martin”, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Ignacio Martin-Loeches

Dept of Clinical Medicine, Wellcome Trust – HRB Clinical Research Facility, St. James's Hospital, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES)

J. Artur Paiva

Emergency and Intensive Care Dept, Centro Hospitalar São João EPE, Porto, Portugal

Robert C. Read

NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, UK

David Rigau

Iberoamerican Cochrane Center, Barcelona, Spain

Jean François Timsit

IAME, INSERM UMR 1137, Medical and Infectious Diseases Intensive Care Unit, Paris Diderot University and Bichat Hospital, Paris, France

Tobias Welte

CAPNETZ STIFTUNG, Hannover, Germany

Richard Wunderink

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA