While monitoring a patient on the ventilator being treated for pneumonia you notice continued fever spikes, elevated white blood cell count, and repeated positive cultures. What term is used to describe this clinical finding?

a. Toxicity of pneumonia
b. Noncompliance of treatment regimen
c. Treatment resolutions
d. Treatment failure


ANS: D

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