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