On the surveillance side, there
may be lessons to be learned
from the CDC’s new paradigm for
ventilator-associated events. The
challenges of sepsis surveillance
parallel many of those related to
surveillance for ventilator-associated
pneumonia; both conditions
lack a clear standard definition,
and their definitions
contain multiple subjective elements.
The CDC’s paradigm for
ventilator-associated events acknowledges
the difficulty of accurate
clinical identification of
ventilator-associated pneumonia
and focuses instead on identifying
the syndrome of nosocomial
respiratory deterioration by mon