The role of selective decontamination of the digestive tract in acute stroke

Age and Ageing

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 42-47

  Gosney, M ^a   Martin, M V ^b   Wright, A E ^c  

^a The Institute of Health Sciences   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aspiration pneumonia; Elderly; Selective decontamination; Stroke

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; COLISTIN; PLACEBO;

AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHI SQUARE TEST; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DISINFECTION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; FOLLOW UP; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MOUTH FLORA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STROKE; SWALLOWING; THROAT CULTURE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DECONTAMINATION; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 31144470092     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afj019     Document Type: Article

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