Is the incidence of hemorrhagic stress ulceration in surgical critically ill patients affected by modern antacid prophylaxis?

American Surgeon

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1010-1013

  Zeltsman, David ^a   Rowland, Michael ^a   Shanavas, Zaifi ^a   Kerstein, Morris D ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTACID AGENT; CIMETIDINE; FAMOTIDINE; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; RANITIDINE; SUCRALFATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRAGASTRIC DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STRESS ULCER; SURGICAL PATIENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTACIDS; ANTI-ULCER AGENTS; CIMETIDINE; FAMOTIDINE; GASTROSCOPY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PEPTIC ULCER HEMORRHAGE; RANITIDINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH ULCER; SUCRALFATE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0029832045     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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