Nosocomial Penumonia

                       

                                                         Classification Of Pneumonia 

 

                                                               Nosocomial Pneumonia  

Nosocomial pneumonia—also known as hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP)—is a lung infection that develops 48 hours or more after a patient is admitted to a hospital, when it was not present or incubating at the time of admission. 

 

 

 

 In 1981, the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) published its first Guideline for Prevention of Nosocomial Pneumonia.

This was an important milestone in the history of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), because it formally addressed infection-control problems associated with respiratory-care equipment. 

The original CDC Guideline for Prevention of Nosocomial Pneumonia was published in 1981 (initially distributed as a loose-leaf manual sent to U.S. hospital infection control departments and subsequently published in journals like Infection Control and Respiratory Care in 1982–1983     

                                  

 Hospital Acquired Pneumonia 

 

 

 

 

 Ventilator Associated Pneumonia 

 

 

 

 

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