Airway Multidrug-Resistant Organisms in a Population of
Tracheostomy and Chronic Ventilator-Dependent Children at a Tertiary
Care Pediatric Hospital
Tara N. Havens, MD1, David A. Rosen, MD,
PhD2,3, Katherine Rivera-Spoljaric, MD,
MSCI1
1Division of Pediatric Allergy and Pulmonary Medicine,
Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri
2Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Washington
University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri
3Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington
University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri
Correspondence to: Tara Havens MD, Division of Allergy and
Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University
School of Medicine, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, 1 Children’s Pl, CB
8116, St. Louis, MO 63110., E-mail:
havens.tara@wustl.edu
Keywords : pediatric, tracheostomy, multidrug-resistant
organism, ventilator-dependent, antibiotics, hospitalizations
Funding Information : No funding was provided for this study
All studies were conducted at the Department of Pediatrics, Division of
Pediatric Allergy and Pulmonary Medicine, Washington University St.
Louis, MO.
Running head: MDROs in tracheostomy and ventilator-dependent
children