Ventilator-associated pneumonia and upper airway colonisation with GRAM negative bacilli: The role of stress ulcer prophylaxis in children

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 763-767

  Lopriore, Enrico ^a   Markhorst, Dick G ^a   Gemke, Reinoud J ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Children; Ranitidine; Sucralfate; Upper airway colonisation; Ventilator associated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

RANITIDINE; SUCRALFATE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PNEUMONIA; PROPHYLAXIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRESS ULCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT; VENTILATOR;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-ULCER AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; MALE; PEPTIC ULCER; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RANITIDINE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUCRALFATE;

EID: 0036278184     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-002-1289-3     Document Type: Article

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