The effect of acidified enteral feeds on gastric colonization in critically ill patients: Results of a multicenter randomized trial

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2399-2406

  Heyland, Daren K ^a,e   Cook, Deborah J ^b   Schoenfeld, Phillip S ^c   Frietag, Andreas ^b   Varon, Joseph ^d   Wood, Gordon ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e KINGSTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acidemia; Critical care; Enteral nutrition; Gastric colonization; Gastric pH; Nosocomial pneumonia; Randomized trial

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CANDIDA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ENTERIC FEEDING; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SERRATIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STOMACH; STOMACH PH;

EID: 0038983091     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199911000-00013     Document Type: Article

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