Prevention of Ventilator-Associated Events

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Course Overview

Presented by Dr. Michael Klompas, the Virginia Infection Prevention Training Center’s course on Prevention of Ventilator-Associated Events (VAEs) provides a comprehensive discussion of why the CDC expanded the purview of safety surveillance for ventilated patients from ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) to ventilator-associated events (VAE). Also discussed are diagnostic challenges, ventilator bundles, surveilling and reporting VAEs, and pediatric VAEs.

Target Audience

Target audience for this course are healthcare professionals who are or will be directly involved in infection prevention activities in their facilities. These are infection prevention professionals who have participated in and gained considerable knowledge through specialized infection and control training and who have minimal to moderate practice or fieldwork experience with infection prevention and control concepts.

Audience examples include advanced beginner to proficient infection preventionists and HAI/AR/IPC staff, novice to proficient healthcare or public health epidemiologists, and antimicrobial stewardship program pharmacists.

Overall Learning Objectives

Define ventilatory-associated events (VAEs)
Discuss VAE surveillance and reporting
Discuss VAE infection prevention best practices

Continuing Education Credit

Continuing Education (CE) credit is available for this course until October 1, 2026. Once viewed, please visit the activity page to obtain your credit.

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