Surveillance for Ventilator-associated Events

• New! Ventilator Associated Events – March 2017
  • YouTube Link [Video – 75 min]
  • Slideset [PDF – 7 MB]
• New! Ventilator Associated Events (cont’d.) – March 2017
  • YouTube Link [Video – 62 min]
  • Slideset [PDF – 7 MB]
• Patient Safety Component (PSC) Annual Survey January 2016 [Video – 6 min]
  • YouTube link – Completing the 2015 Facility Survey
  • CDC Streaming Video – Completing the 2015 Facility Survey
• VAE, VAP and PNEU Definition Changes for January 2015 [Video – 11 min]
  • YouTube link
  • CDC Streaming Video

Additional Training

• Introduction to Device-associated Module Training [CBT – 60 min]
• New! General NHSN Definitions for 2017 – March 2017
  • YouTube Link [Video – 54 min]
  • Slideset [PDF – 2M]
• New! Determining Healthcare Association or Present on Admission Infections and Other Rules – July 2017
  • YouTube Link [Video – 16 min]

Analysis Training

• New! NHSN Analysis: Focus on Device-associated Data SIR for CLABSI, CAUTI, and VAE – March 2017
  • YouTube Link [Video – 57 min]
  • Slideset [PDF – 2 MB]
• Data Entry and Analysis Training

Continuing Education

• Obtaining Continuing Education for NHSN Training Events

• Ventilator-Associated Event (VAE) Protocol, January 2017 [PDF – 1M]
• NHSN Overview January, 2017 [PDF – 74K]
• Identifying Healthcare-associated Infections (HAIs) in NHSN, January 2017 [PDF – 842K]
• Patient Safety Monthly Reporting Plan, January 2017 [PDF – 54K]

• New! FAQs: Ventilator-Associated Events (VAE) April 2017 [PDF – 780K]
• New! FAQs: Analysis April 2017 [PDF – 412K]
• FAQs: Annual Survey April 2016 [PDF – 250K]
• FAQs: CDA
• New! FAQs: Locations April 2017 [PDF – 254K]
• New! FAQs: Miscellaneous April 2017 [PDF – 265K]

• 57.112 Ventilator-Associated Event (VAE) form January 2017 [PDF – 109K]
  • Customizable form [DOCX – 44K]
  • Table of Instructions for VAE form 57.112 [PDF – 144K]
• 57.118 Denominators for Intensive Care Unit (ICU)/Other locations (not NICU or SCA) form January 2017 [PDF – 40K]
  • Customizable form [DOCX – 29K]  
  • Table of Instructions for Denominators for ICU form 57.118 [PDF – 191K]
• 57.150 Patient Safety Component—Annual Facility Survey for LTAC January 2017 [PDF – 95K]
  • Table of instructions for Patient Safety Annual Facility Survey for LTAC 57.150 [PDF – 197K]
• 57.106 Patient Safety Monthly Reporting Plan form January 2017 [PDF – 53K]
  • Customizable form [DOCX – 31K]
  • Table of Instructions for Monthly Reporting Plan form 57.106 [PDF – 61K]
• 57.115 HAI Custom Event form January 2017 [PDF – 99K]
  • Customizable form [DOCX – 50K]
    **Not to be used for CLABSI, CAUTI, SSI, VAE, pediatric VAP, or LabID events.**
    To be used in conjunction with the CDC/NHSN Surveillance Definitions for Specific Types of Infections, January 2017 [PDF – 851K] Chapter in the NHSN Patient Safety Manual.

• VAE Surveillance Mechanical Ventilation Table January 2015 [PDF – 154K]
• NHSN Patient Safety Component Alerts [PDF – 1M]
• Unusual Susceptibility Profiles Alert January 2015 [PDF – 362K]
• CDC Location Labels and Location Descriptions, January 2017 [PDF – 808K]
• NHSN Key Terms, January 2017 [PDF – 255K]
• CDC/NHSN Surveillance Definitions for Specific Types of Infections, January 2017 [PDF – 851K]
• NHSN Organism List (All Organisms, Top Organisms, Common Commensals, MBI Organisms, and UTI Bacteria) January 2017 [XLSX – 296K]
• Guidance for Missing Device-associated Denominator Data [PDF – 145K]
• Changing a CCN within NHSN (updated July 2015) [PDF – 290K]

• Operational Guidance for Long Term Care Hospitals* to Report Ventilator-associated Event (VAE) Data to CDC’s NHSN for the Purpose of Fulfilling CMS’s Quality Reporting Requirements, September 2016 [PDF – 118K]

• Ventilator-Associated Event Calculator (Version 4.0)
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• VAE Data Collection Worksheet January 2015 [PDF – 157K]
  • VAE Data Collection Worksheet January 2015 [DOCX – 29K]
• VAE Antimicrobial Worksheet January 2015 [PDF – 74K]
  • VAE Antimicrobial Worksheet January 2015 [DOCX – 32K]
• VAE Antimicrobial Worksheet Instructions January 2015 [PDF – 198K]

• Patient Safety Analysis Resources
• Patient Safety Analysis Quick Reference Guides
• Patient Safety Component – Variable Reference List [PDF – 3M]

• Michael Klompas M, Kleinman K, Murphy MV for the CDC Prevention Epicenters Program (2014).
  Descriptive Epidemiology and Attributable Morbidity of VAE
  Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 35(5): 502-10.
• Dessap AM, Katsahian S, Roche-Campo F, Varet H, Kouatchet A, Tomicic V, Beduneau G, Sonneville R, Jaber S, Darmon M, Castanares-Zapatero D, Brochard L, Brun-Buisson C (2014).
  Ventilator-associated pneumonia during weaning from mechanical ventilation
  [published online ahead of print March 20, 2014]  Chest.
• Magill SS, Klompas M, Balk R, Burns SM, Deutschman CS, Diekema D, Fridkin S, Greene L, Guh A, Gutterman D, Hammer B, Henderson D, Hess D, Hill NS, Horan T, Kollef M, Levy M, Septimus E, Vanantwerpen C, Wright D, Lipsett P (2013).
  Developing a new, national approach to surveillance for ventilator-associated events
  Crit Care Med. 41(11):2467-75.
• Klompas M, (2013).
  Complications of Mechanical Ventilation — The CDC’s New Surveillance Paradigm
  N Engl J Med. 368:1472-1475.
• Hayashi Y, Morisawa K, Klompas M, Jones M, Bandeshe H, Boots R, Lipman J, Paterson DL (2012).
  Towards improved surveillance: the impact of ventilator-associated complications (VAC) on length of stay and antibiotic use in patients in intensive care units.
  Clin Infect Dis. 56(4):471-7.
• More – Complete listing of VAE Related Publications April 2014 [PDF – 66K]