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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evaluation for Prevention of Ventilator-Associated Events.
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