The PROPHY-VAP Trial: Ceftriaxone to Prevent VAP in Patients with Acute Brain Injury
Background: Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), or what the CDC recently renamed infection-related ventilator-associated complication (IVAC), is defined as a nosocomial pneumonia occurring on day 3 of mechanical ventilation that was preceded by 2 days of stable or decreasing ventilator requirements.1, 2 …
