Withholding selective decontamination of the digestive tract from critically ill patients must now surely be ethically questionable given the vast evidence base

Critical Care

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Zandstra, Durk F ^a   Petros, Andy J ^b   Taylor, Nia ^c   Silvestri, Luciano ^d   de la Cal, Miguel A ^e   van Saene, Hendrick K F ^c  

^a Onze Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis ^*  (Netherlands)

^b GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d Unit of Anesthesia and Intensive Care   (Italy)

^e HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE GETAFE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEM; CEFTAZIDIME; CEPHALOSPORIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLONE; TOBRAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DISINFECTION; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE DIGESTIVE DECONTAMINATION; SELECTIVE OROPHARYNGEAL DECONTAMINATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ETHICS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; MICROBIOLOGY; NOTE; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

CRITICAL ILLNESS; DECONTAMINATION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 77957291609     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc9255     Document Type: Letter

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