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Patman and associates at the Lung Institute of Western Australia in Perth undertook this study to determine whether the routine, intensive administration of chest physiotherapy (PT) to mechanically ventilated patients with severe acute brain injury would prevent the occurrence of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), or speed its resolution once it was present.

Does Chest Physiotherapy Prevent Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in Brain-Injured Patients?