The VAE surveillance definition algorithm developed by the Working Group and implemented in the NHSN in January 2013 is based on objective, streamlined, and potentially automatable criteria that identify a broad range of conditions and complications occurring in mechanically ventilated adult patients [16].

VAE surveillance enables facilities to identify a broad range of complications related to mechanical ventilation.

There is a hierarchy of definitions within VAE: If a patient meets criteria for VAC and IVAC, report as IVAC. If a patient meets criteria for VAC, IVAC, and PVAP, report PVAP. Do not upgrade an event using findings that occur outside the VAE Window Period.

Mechanical ventilation (MV) is a life-support therapy that may predispose to morbid and lethal complications, with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) being the most prevalent. In 2013, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) defined criteria for ventilator-associated events (VAE).

The new classification of ventilator-associated events (VAE) proposed by the centers for disease control and prevention (CDC) enhance the spectra of complications due to MV including both infection-related and non-infectious events.

This module has tools and slide sets to help units accomplish three goals: Monitor ventilator-associated events and outcome measures. Reduce ventilator-associated events (VAE). Make evidence-based determinations about the care of ventilated patients. …

Mechanically ventilated patients are at risk from their many comorbidities as well as from mechanical ventilation itself. Harms that can befall these mechanically ventilated patients range from acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) to atelectasis and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP).

After this session, you will be able to describe the impact of mechanical ventilation and ventilator-associated events or VAEs, identify the definitions of the three VAE tiers, recognize the importance of monitoring VAE and objective outcome measures, and correctly apply VAE diagnostic criteria to determine if a VAE has occurred.

If a VAE is detected during a first episode of mechanical ventilation, and then the patient is extubated and re-intubated later during the 14-day event period (defining a second episode of mechanical ventilation), can a new VAE be identified and reported?

Jul 30, 2014 · Ventilator-associated events are a formal establishment of an already-enshrined concept in the treatment of critically ill mechanically ventilated patients, which is to take changes in oxygen and/or PEEP requirements seriously and to seek an underlying treatable cause.