Selective decontamination of the digestive tract in critically ill patients

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1323-1326

  Fowler, R A ^a   Cheung, A M ^a   Marshall, J C ^a  

^a TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CROSS INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTESTINE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTESTINES; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 0033217838     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001340051067     Document Type: Article

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