Selective decontamination of the digestive tract in critical care: a teenage angst or coming of age issue?

Abstract Selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD) has been with us since the early days of our specialty, and in some ways it marks our progression and maturation. How we have dealt with SDD to date ranges from “thorn in our side” to “elephant in the room”. With high quality multi-nati...

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Main Author: Brian H. Cuthbertson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-11-01
Series:Critical Care
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13054-018-2227-2
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spelling doaj-f02d891913634fc0b728fbf0699558db2020-11-25T01:15:03ZengBMCCritical Care1364-85352018-11-012211210.1186/s13054-018-2227-2Selective decontamination of the digestive tract in critical care: a teenage angst or coming of age issue?Brian H. Cuthbertson0Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of TorontoAbstract Selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD) has been with us since the early days of our specialty, and in some ways it marks our progression and maturation. How we have dealt with SDD to date ranges from “thorn in our side” to “elephant in the room”. With high quality multi-national studies underway, how we deal with these results will mark our final maturation to adulthood as a specialty.http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13054-018-2227-2SepsisPreventionSelective decontamination of the digestive tractAntibioticsEvidence
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Selective decontamination of the digestive tract in critical care: a teenage angst or coming of age issue?
Critical Care
Sepsis
Prevention
Selective decontamination of the digestive tract
Antibiotics
Evidence
author_facet Brian H. Cuthbertson
author_sort Brian H. Cuthbertson
title Selective decontamination of the digestive tract in critical care: a teenage angst or coming of age issue?
title_short Selective decontamination of the digestive tract in critical care: a teenage angst or coming of age issue?
title_full Selective decontamination of the digestive tract in critical care: a teenage angst or coming of age issue?
title_fullStr Selective decontamination of the digestive tract in critical care: a teenage angst or coming of age issue?
title_full_unstemmed Selective decontamination of the digestive tract in critical care: a teenage angst or coming of age issue?
title_sort selective decontamination of the digestive tract in critical care: a teenage angst or coming of age issue?
publisher BMC
series Critical Care
issn 1364-8535
publishDate 2018-11-01
description Abstract Selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD) has been with us since the early days of our specialty, and in some ways it marks our progression and maturation. How we have dealt with SDD to date ranges from “thorn in our side” to “elephant in the room”. With high quality multi-national studies underway, how we deal with these results will mark our final maturation to adulthood as a specialty.
topic Sepsis
Prevention
Selective decontamination of the digestive tract
Antibiotics
Evidence
url http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13054-018-2227-2
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