Gastroduodenal dysfunction and bacterial colonisation of the ventilated lung

The Lancet

Volumn 341, Issue 8850, 1993, Pages 911-913

  Inglis, T J J ^a   Sherratt, M J ^a   Sproat, L J ^a   Hawkey, P M ^a   Gibson, J S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; CEFRADINE; PENICILLIN G; SULFADIMIDINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUODENUM; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BILIRUBIN; CHILD; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CROSS INFECTION; DUODENOGASTRIC REFLUX; FEMALE; GASTRIC ACIDITY DETERMINATION; GASTRIC JUICE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMAN; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPUTUM; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0027456324     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0140-6736(93)91208-4     Document Type: Article

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