Annual Congress Vienna 2009

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Diagnosis of ventilator-associated pneumonia: challenge the dogmas!

Symposium
Chairs: B. Schoenhofer (Hanover, Germany), R. Cosentini (Milan, Italy)
Aims: At the end of this symposium the participants should: have improved their knowledge about the diagnostic procedures for pneumonia and ventilator-associated pneumonia; know the best practice for invasive diagnostic techniques (brush biopsy and bronchoalveolar lavage) compared with tracheal aspirate; know how to apply noninvasive techniques, with laboratory markers; know about the role of clinical evaluation and clinical pulmonary infection score; and know about the role of imaging, chest radiography, computed tomography scans and other recent imaging techniques.

I like invasive techniques to define their role in the diagnosis of pneumonia and ventilator-associated pneumonia A. Torres (Barcelona, Spain)
I like clinical pulmonary infection scores to define the role of clinical evaluation to diagnose pneumonia and ventilator-associated pneumonia P. Pelosi (Milano, Italy)