ICU · ICU-acquired infection

ICU-Acquired Infection — VAP, CRBSI and CLABSI

Also known as Ventilator-associated pneumonia · VAP · Catheter-related bloodstream infection · CRBSI · Central line infection · Nosocomial infection · Catheter-associated UTI

The ICU-acquired infections are the complications of the critical care itself — the ventilator-associated pneumonia (the VAP), the catheter-related bloodstream infection (the CRBSI), the catheter-associated UTI, and the Clostridioides difficile. Each increases the mortality, the length of stay, and the cost, and each is largely PREVENTABLE through the bundles. This topic builds the examiner's framework on the VAP (the diagnosis, the prevention bundle, the short-course antibiotics), the CRBSI (the prevention, the diagnosis, the catheter removal), and the general principles of the infection prevention in the ICU.