Prevention and treatment of aspiration pneumonia in intensive care units

Treatments in Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 317-324

  D'Escrivan, Thibaud ^a   Guery, Benoit ^a  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE TOURCOING   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTACID AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; BETA LACTAMASE INHIBITOR; CEPHALOSPORIN; CLINDAMYCIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENT; LEVOFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; STOMACH SECRETION INHIBITOR;

ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIOLOGY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BODY POSITION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COUGHING; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FUNCTION DISORDER; DRUG CHOICE; EMERGENCY CARE; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENTERIC FEEDING; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MOUTH HYGIENE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SEDATION; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STOMACH PARESIS; STOMACH PH; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TECHNIQUE; TOOTH PLAQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; ORAL HYGIENE; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; POSTURE;

EID: 31344468328     PISSN: 11763450     EISSN: 11763450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00151829-200504050-00003     Document Type: Review

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