A randomized, controlled study of prophylactic ranitidine in preventing stress-induced gastric mucosal lesions in neonatal intensive care unit patients

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 346-351

  Kuusela, Anna Leena ^a,b   Ruuska, Tarja ^a,b   Karikoski, Riitta ^b   Laippala, Pekka ^a   Ikonen, R Sami ^b   Janas, Martti ^b   Maki, Markku ^a,b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

gastritis; gastroscopy; histamine 2 receptor blocker; infant; newborn; preterm; ranitidine; stress ulcer; surfactant

Indexed keywords

HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; RANITIDINE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOMACH MUCOSA LESION; STRESS;

BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; GASTRIC MUCOSA; GASTROSCOPY; HISTAMINE H2 ANTAGONISTS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PEPTIC ULCER; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANITIDINE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; STRESS;

EID: 0031016387     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199702000-00025     Document Type: Article

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