The effect of selective decontamination of the digestive tract on mortality in multiple trauma patients: A multicenter randomized controlled trial

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 261-270

  Stoutenbeek, C P ^a   Van Saene, H K F ^b   Little, R A ^c   Whitehead, A ^d  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; COLISTIN; TOBRAMYCIN;

ADULT; AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RATE; INJURY SCALE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PNEUMONIA; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPSIS; TRACHEOBRONCHITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DECONTAMINATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 33846857165     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-006-0455-4     Document Type: Article

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