Letter
New tracheal tubes to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia: where is the evidence?
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Correspondence: Saad Nseir s-nseir@chru-lille.fr
Intensive Care Unit, Calmette Hospital, University Hospital of Lille, boulevard du Pr Leclercq, 59037 Lille cedex, France
Medical Assessment Laboratory, EA 2694, Lille II University, 1 place de Verdun, 59045 Lille, France
Critical Care 2011, 15:459 doi:10.1186/cc10557
Published: 8 December 2011First paragraph (this article has no abstract)
Zolfaghari and Wyncoll [1] propose that it may now be against good medical practice to continue to use a 'standard cuffed tube' given the weight of evidence supporting the use of newer tube designs to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP).