Evidence Based Practices to Prevent Ventilator Associated Pneumonia in an Intensive Care Unit in Bangladesh We're helping shape the future of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP) surveillance. The national Infection in Critical Care Quality Improvement Programme (ICCQIP) is expanding its work, and we're forming a new IPS working group Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP) is a serious lung infection that occurs in patients on mechanical ventilation for over 48 hours. It is often caused by bacteria entering the lungs through the ventilator, leading PDF] Guidelines for the prevention of ventilator associated pneumonia and their implementation. The Spanish "Zero VAP" bundle. Semantic Scholar