Selective decontamination in intensive care practice: A review of clinical experience

Colonization resistance of the digestive tract in conventional and antibiotic-treated mice

1971 • 883 citations

Nosocomial Pneumonia in Intubated Patients Given Sucralfate as Compared with Antacids or Histamine Type 2 Blockers

1987 • 765 citations

The effect of selective decontamination of the digestive tract on colonisation and infection rate in multiple trauma patients

1984 • 694 citations

Infection and diabetes: The case for glucose control

1982 • 640 citations

ASPIRATION OF GASTRIC BACTERIA IN ANTACID-TREATED PATIENTS: A FREQUENT CAUSE OF POSTOPERATIVE COLONISATION OF THE AIRWAY

1982 • 467 citations

Factors Predisposing to Oropharyngeal Colonization with Gram-Negative Bacilli in the Aged

1978 • 423 citations

TRIPLE REGIMEN OF SELECTIVE DECONTAMINATION OF THE DIGESTIVE TRACT, SYSTEMIC CEFOTAXIME, AND MICROBIOLOGICAL SURVEILLANCE FOR PREVENTION OF ACQUIRED INFECTION IN INTENSIVE CARE

1988 • 319 citations

STOMACH AS SOURCE OF BACTERIA COLONISING RESPIRATORY TRACT DURING ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION

1978 • 292 citations

High risk of hospital-acquired infection in the ICU patient

1982 • 269 citations

Risk of acute stress bleeding and nosocomial pneumonia in ventilated intensive care unit patients: Sucralfate versus antacids

1987 • 259 citations

Prevention of colonization and infection in critically ill patients

1988 • 253 citations

Evidence Suggesting Importance of Role of Interbacterial Inhibition in Maintaining Balance of Normal Flora

1968 • 252 citations

Prevention of colonization and respiratory infections in long-term ventilated patients by local antimicrobial prophylaxis

1987 • 242 citations

Infection prevention in granulocytopenic patients by selective decontamination of the digestive tract

1980 • 241 citations

Patients' Endogenous Flora as the Source of "Nosocomial" Enterobacter in Cardiac Surgery

1987 • 208 citations

The Effect of Oropharyngeal Decontamination Using Topical Nonabsorbable Antibiotics on the Incidence of Nosocomial Respiratory Tract Infections in Multiple Trauma Patients

1987 • 203 citations

Effect of cimetidine on the gastric bacterial flora.

1980 • 180 citations

ORAL NON-ABSORBED ANTIBIOTICS PREVENT INFECTION IN ACUTE NON-LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKqMIA

1977 • 156 citations

POST-TRAUMATIC IMMUNOSUPPRESSION IS DUE TO ACTIVATION OF SUPPRESSOR T CELLS

1976 • 150 citations

Colonization of the gastric contents in critically patients

1982 • 148 citations

EFFECT OF CIMETIDINE ON THE GASTRIC BACTERIAL FLORA

1980 • 128 citations

The effect of oral non-absorbable antibiotics on the emergence of resistant bacteria in patients in an intensive care unit

1987 • 120 citations

Acquired immunologic deficiencies after trauma and surgical procedures.

1974 • 118 citations

Colonization and infection in surgical intensive care patients ?a prospective study

1987 • 116 citations

A comparison of infections in different ICUs within the same hospital

1985 • 112 citations

Inhibitors of leukocyte chemotaxis in alcoholic liver disease

1975 • 110 citations

The Effects of Total Parenteral Nutrition on Immunodepression Due to Malnutrition

1977 • 108 citations

Antibacterial activity of sucralfate in human gastric juice

1987 • 107 citations

Host Defense in Blunt Trauma: Interrelationships of Kinetics of Anergy and Depressed Neutrophil Function, Nutritional Status, and Sepsis

1980 • 104 citations

Prevention of Bacterial Overgrowth

1971 • 76 citations

Infection surveillance and control in the severely traumatized patient

1981 • 75 citations

Nosocomial infection among patients in different types of intensive care units at a city hospital

1986 • 72 citations

Microbial surveillance in a surgical intensive care unit.

1974 • 69 citations

Neutrophil function, serum opsonic activity, and delayed hypersensitivity in surgical patients.

1982 • 65 citations

Colistin and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole for the prevention of infection in patients with acute non-lymphocytic leukaemia. Decrease in the emergence of resistant bacteria

1983 • 46 citations

Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Cancer Patients: Regimens of Oral, Nonabsorbable Antibiotics for Prevention of Infection During Induction of Remission

1981 • 45 citations

A survey of infection in an intensive care unit ‘Forewarned is forearmed’

1979 • 38 citations

Patterns of mortality in a surgical intensive care unit.

1981 • 36 citations

Isolation of Immunosuppressive Serum Components following Thermal Injury

1982 • 34 citations

Tongue extrusion as an aid to blind nasal intubation

1982 • 20 citations

Environment and costs in surgical intensive care unit. The implication of selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD).

1983 • 16 citations

Nosocomial infections in severely traumatized patients: magnitude of problem, pathogenesis, prevention and therapy.

1987 • 13 citations

Infection Control by Selective Flora Suppression in Critically Ill Patients

1989 • 11 citations

New Approaches to the Prevention of Infection in Intensive Care Unit Patients

1989 • 8 citations

Colonisation of the gastric contents in critically ill patients.

1983 • 8 citations

Endotoxaemia in Multiple Organ Failure: A Secondary Role for SDD?

1989 • 5 citations

Emergence of Resistance during Selective Decontamination: Glasgow Results

1989 • 5 citations

The Effect of a Novel Regime of Selective Decontamination on the Incidence of Unit-Acquired Lower Respiratory Tract Infection in Mechanically Ventilated Patients

1989 • 4 citations