Orlando, Fla.—Because traumatically injured patients with early-onset ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) are more likely to be sensitive to narrow-spectrum antibiotics than those with late VAP, empirical treatment of early VAP with narrow-spectrum antibiotics is a reasonable choice, a study has found. The results also concluded that broad-spectrum antibiotics should continue to be standard empirical therapy for late VAP.
Jeffrey R. Simpson, MD
“Based on the fact that trauma