Journal of Cardiovascular Disease Research
Comparison of Bronchoalveolar Lavage, Mini Bronchoalveolar Lavage and ET aspirate in diagnosis and management of pneumonia in Intensive Care Unit
Dr. Shubham Tiwari, Dr .Ved Prakash, Dr. Ravi Kant Pandey, Dr. Saurabh Ojha, Dr. Sachin Kumar, Dr. Anil Maurya, Dr. Smiriti Khari, Dr .Hemant Agarwal
JCDR. 2023: 2309-2314
Abstract
Introduction- One of the main causes of morbidity and death for patients hospitalized to the intensive care unit is pneumonia. In these patients, bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) is frequently utilized to aid in the diagnosis and characterization of pneumonia. Compared to BAL, mini-BAL and ETA are less intrusive, expensive, and time-consuming diagnostic tools. The present study was conducted to compare microbiological examination of aspirate, taken by fiberoptic bronchoscope, mini-bal and et-aspirate from patients with diagnosis of pneumonia in intensive care unit
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