Defining Ventilator-associated Pneumonia: a (de)construction Concept

Overview

Journal Rev Bras Ter Intensiva

Specialties Critical Care
General Medicine

Date 2013 Aug 7

PMID 23917971

Citations 4

Authors

Camila Hubner Dalmora

Caroline Deutschendorf

Fabiano Nagel

Rodrigo Pires Dos Santos

Thiago Lisboa

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