Effect of selective decontamination of the digestive tract on respiratory tract infections and mortality in the intensive care unit

Beta blockade during and after myocardial infarction: An overview of the randomized trials

1985 • 3,248 citations

Publication bias in clinical research

1991 • 3,034 citations

Nosocomial Respiratory Infections with Gram-Negative Bacilli

1972 • 1,075 citations

Secondary prevention of vascular disease by prolonged antiplatelet treatment

1988 • 962 citations

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

1984 • 694 citations

Risk factors for pneumonia and fatality in patients receiving continuous mechanical ventilation.

1986 • 684 citations

Intestinal Decontamination for Control of Nosocomial Multiresistant Gram-Negative Bacilli

1989 • 376 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

Pneumonia in an Intensive Care Unit

1974 • 294 citations

Prevention of colonization and infection in critically ill patients

1988 • 253 citations

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

1987 • 242 citations

Selective decontamination of the digestive tract with norfloxacin in the prevention of ICU-acquired infections: a prospective randomized study

1989 • 193 citations

Selective decontamination to reduce gram-negative colonisation and infections after oesophageal resection

1990 • 128 citations

Nosocomial Respiratory Infections

1983 • 123 citations

Prevention of Gram-Negative Bacillary Pneumonia Using Aerosol Polymyxin as Prophylaxis. I. EFFECT ON THE COLONIZATION PATTERN OF THE UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT OF SERIOUSLY ILL PATIENTS

1973 • 94 citations

Prevention of Nosocomial Pneumonia Using Topical and Parenteral Antimicrobial Agents

1988 • 90 citations

Reducing sepsis in severe combined acute renal and respiratory failure by selective decontamination of the digestive tract

1990 • 70 citations

Pneumonia in an intensive care unit. A 30-month experience

1974 • 51 citations

Endotracheal Antibiotics for the Prevention of Tracheobronchial Infections in Tracheotomized Unconscious Patients

1975 • 49 citations

[Frequency of colonization and pneumonia and development of resistance in long-term ventilated intensive-care patients subjected to selective decontamination of the digestive tract].

1989 • 42 citations

COLONIZATION OF INTENSIVE CARE UNIT PATIENTS WITH GRAM-NEGATIVE BACILLI

1975 • 41 citations

Infection surveillance and selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD) in critically ill patients — results of a controlled study

1990 • 23 citations

Nosocomial respiratory infections

1974 • 16 citations