Silver Coating Fights Ventilator Related Pneumonia
...silver to prevent the spread of infection, which often leads to pneumonia in already seriously ill patients. We are guessing that it was C.R. Bard's Agento I.C. silver-coated endotracheal tubes that were used in the study. Studying 1,509 patients in 54 centers who were intubated for 24 hours or more, the research group found that 7.5 percent...
