Surviving Sepsis Campaign needed consensus to exclude selective decontamination of the digestive tract

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2716-2717

  Silvestri, Luciano ^a   Van Saene, Hendrick K F ^b   De La Cal, Miguel A ^c   Zandstra, Durk F ^d   Viviani, Marino ^e   Perić, Mladen ^f   Gullo, Antonino ^g  

^a Unit of Anesthesia and Intensive Care   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE GETAFE   (Spain)

^d ONZE LIEVE VROUWE GASTHUIS   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^f SESTRE MILOSRDNICE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Croatia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSENSUS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LETTER; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; SELECTIVE DECONTAMINATION OF THE DIGESTIVE TRACT; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL; THROMBOSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; INTENSIVE CARE; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SEPTIC SHOCK; STANDARD;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CRITICAL CARE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SEPSIS; SHOCK, SEPTIC;

EID: 53049098096     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31818474a2     Document Type: Letter

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