Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Antimicrobial treatment for ventilator-associated tracheobronchitis: a randomized, controlled, multicenter study. | Available online http content 1 2 3 R62 Research Antimicrobial treatment for ventilator-associated tracheobronchitis a randomized controlled multicenter study Saad Nseir1 2 Raphael Favory1 Elsa Jozefowicz3 Franck Decamps4 Florent Dewavrin5 Guillaume Brunin6 Christophe Di Pompeo2 Daniel Mathieu1 Alain Durocher1 2 for the VAT Study Group 1Réanimation Médicale boulevard du Pr Leclercq Hôpital Calmette CHRU de Lille 59037 Lille Cedex France 2Laboratoire d Evaluation Médicale EA 2690 Université Lille II 1 place de Verdun 59045 Lille France 3Centre d Investigation Clinique boulevard du Pr Leclercq Hôpital Cardiologique CHRU de Lille 59037 Lille Cedex France 4Réanimation Neurochirurgicale CHRU de Lille Hôpital R. Salengro CHRU de Lille 59037 Lille Cedex France 5Réanimation Polyvalente Hôpital Régional Avenue Désandrouin BP 479 59322 Valenciennes Cedex France 6Réanimation Polyvalente CH Duchenne rue Jacques Monod BP 609 62321 Boulogne Sur Mer France Corresponding author Saad Nseir s-nseir@ Received 18 Feb 2008 Revisions requested 10 Mar 2008 Revisions received 7 Apr 2008 Accepted 2 May 2008 Published 2 May 2008 Critical Care 2008 12 R62 doi cc6890 This article is online at http content 12 3 R62 2008 Nseir et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Open Access Abstract Introduction Ventilator-associated tracheobronchitis VAT is associated with increased duration of mechanical ventilation. We hypothesized that in patients with VAT antibiotic treatment would be associated with reduced duration of mechanical ventilation. Methods We conducted a prospective randomized controlled unblinded multicenter study. Patients were randomly assigned 1 1 to receive or not receive intravenous .