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Treatment of ventilator-associated pneumonia and ventilator-associated tracheobronchitis in the intensive care unit

A national survey of clinicians and pharmacists in Saudi Arabia

Awad Al-Omari, Masood Mohammed, Waleed Alhazzani, Hasan M. Al-Dorzi, Mohammed S. Belal, Ali O. Albshabshe, Maha F. Al-Subaie and Yaseen M. Arabi
Saudi Medical Journal December 2015, 36 (12) 1453-1462; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.12.12345
Awad Al-Omari
From the Critical Care and Infectious Disease Department (Al-Omari), Critical Care Department (Belal, Al-Subai,), Security Forces Hospital, Critical Care Department (Mohammed), Dr. Sulaiman Al-Habib Group of Hospitals, the Critical Care Medicine Section (Al-Dorzi), King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdulaziz Medical City, the Department of Critical Care Medicine (Albshabshe), King Khalid University, the Intensive Care Department (Arabi), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Medicine (Alhazzani), Division of Critical Care, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
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  • For correspondence: [email protected]
Masood Mohammed
From the Critical Care and Infectious Disease Department (Al-Omari), Critical Care Department (Belal, Al-Subai,), Security Forces Hospital, Critical Care Department (Mohammed), Dr. Sulaiman Al-Habib Group of Hospitals, the Critical Care Medicine Section (Al-Dorzi), King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdulaziz Medical City, the Department of Critical Care Medicine (Albshabshe), King Khalid University, the Intensive Care Department (Arabi), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Medicine (Alhazzani), Division of Critical Care, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
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Waleed Alhazzani
From the Critical Care and Infectious Disease Department (Al-Omari), Critical Care Department (Belal, Al-Subai,), Security Forces Hospital, Critical Care Department (Mohammed), Dr. Sulaiman Al-Habib Group of Hospitals, the Critical Care Medicine Section (Al-Dorzi), King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdulaziz Medical City, the Department of Critical Care Medicine (Albshabshe), King Khalid University, the Intensive Care Department (Arabi), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Medicine (Alhazzani), Division of Critical Care, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
MSc (Epid), FRCPC
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Hasan M. Al-Dorzi
From the Critical Care and Infectious Disease Department (Al-Omari), Critical Care Department (Belal, Al-Subai,), Security Forces Hospital, Critical Care Department (Mohammed), Dr. Sulaiman Al-Habib Group of Hospitals, the Critical Care Medicine Section (Al-Dorzi), King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdulaziz Medical City, the Department of Critical Care Medicine (Albshabshe), King Khalid University, the Intensive Care Department (Arabi), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Medicine (Alhazzani), Division of Critical Care, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
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Mohammed S. Belal
From the Critical Care and Infectious Disease Department (Al-Omari), Critical Care Department (Belal, Al-Subai,), Security Forces Hospital, Critical Care Department (Mohammed), Dr. Sulaiman Al-Habib Group of Hospitals, the Critical Care Medicine Section (Al-Dorzi), King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdulaziz Medical City, the Department of Critical Care Medicine (Albshabshe), King Khalid University, the Intensive Care Department (Arabi), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Medicine (Alhazzani), Division of Critical Care, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
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Ali O. Albshabshe
From the Critical Care and Infectious Disease Department (Al-Omari), Critical Care Department (Belal, Al-Subai,), Security Forces Hospital, Critical Care Department (Mohammed), Dr. Sulaiman Al-Habib Group of Hospitals, the Critical Care Medicine Section (Al-Dorzi), King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdulaziz Medical City, the Department of Critical Care Medicine (Albshabshe), King Khalid University, the Intensive Care Department (Arabi), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Medicine (Alhazzani), Division of Critical Care, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
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Maha F. Al-Subaie
From the Critical Care and Infectious Disease Department (Al-Omari), Critical Care Department (Belal, Al-Subai,), Security Forces Hospital, Critical Care Department (Mohammed), Dr. Sulaiman Al-Habib Group of Hospitals, the Critical Care Medicine Section (Al-Dorzi), King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdulaziz Medical City, the Department of Critical Care Medicine (Albshabshe), King Khalid University, the Intensive Care Department (Arabi), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Medicine (Alhazzani), Division of Critical Care, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
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Yaseen M. Arabi
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vol. 36 no. 12 1453-1462
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.12.12345
PubMed 
26620988

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received May 7, 2015
  • Accepted October 7, 2015
  • Published online December 1, 2015.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Awad Al-Omari, MD⇑,
  2. Masood Mohammed, MD, MRCP,
  3. Waleed Alhazzani, MSc (Epid), FRCPC,
  4. Hasan M. Al-Dorzi, MD,
  5. Mohammed S. Belal, MSc, MRCP(UK),
  6. Ali O. Albshabshe, MD, MRCP,
  7. Maha F. Al-Subaie, BSc, Pharm and
  8. Yaseen M. Arabi, MD, FCCM
  1. From the Critical Care and Infectious Disease Department (Al-Omari), Critical Care Department (Belal, Al-Subai,), Security Forces Hospital, Critical Care Department (Mohammed), Dr. Sulaiman Al-Habib Group of Hospitals, the Critical Care Medicine Section (Al-Dorzi), King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdulaziz Medical City, the Department of Critical Care Medicine (Albshabshe), King Khalid University, the Intensive Care Department (Arabi), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Medicine (Alhazzani), Division of Critical Care, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Awad Al-Omari, Assistant Professor, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: dr_awad_ksa{at}yahoo.com
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