GRAVITY-VAP TRIAL RESULTS

Can the lateral trendelenburg position prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia?

In this icTV interview, Gianluigi Li Bassi discusses his recently published RCT “Lateral Trendelenburg versus semirecumbent body position for the prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia” and Ignacio Martin-Loeches comments on what makes this trial noteworthy.  Results from this trial were presented during the Clinical Trials Session at LIVES 2017 in Vienna.

Read the article in Intensive Care Medicine HERE.