Prevention of pneumonia by selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD)

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

Multiple Organ System Failure and Infection in Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome

1983 • 654 citations

Diagnosis of Nosocomial Bacterial Pneumonia in Acute, Diffuse Lung Injury

1981 • 484 citations

Microorganisms Indigenous to Man

1963 • 390 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

Role of respiratory assistance devices in endemic nosocomial pneumonia

1981 • 291 citations

Oropharyngeal decontamination decreases incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia. A randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind clinical trial

1991 • 275 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

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

1987 • 242 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

Oropharyngeal Decontamination Decreases Incidence of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia

1991 • 201 citations

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

1989 • 193 citations

Early onset pneumonia: a multicenter study in intensive care units

1987 • 182 citations

Prevention of nosocomial lung infection in ventilated patients

1990 • 177 citations

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

1990 • 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

Oropharyngeal decontamination decreases incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia

1992 • 117 citations

Intestinal decontamination in a polyvalent ICU

1990 • 115 citations

Pilot Trial of Selective Decontamination for Prevention of Bacterial Infection in an Intensive Care Unit

1990 • 100 citations

Incidence of pneumonia in mechanically ventilated patients treated with sucralfate or cimetidine as prophylaxis for stress bleeding: Bacterial colonization of the stomach

1991 • 99 citations

Selective elimination of Enterobacteriaceae species from the digestive tract in mice and monkeys

1974 • 82 citations

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

1990 • 70 citations

The prevention of superinfection in multiple trauma patients

1984 • 69 citations

Clinical trials of selective decontamination of the digestive tract

1990 • 63 citations

Prevention of pneumonia in an intensive care unit

1989 • 54 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

[The effect of stress ulcer prevention on the incidence of pneumonia in artificial respiration].

1987 • 38 citations

Prevention of bacterial colonization of the respiratory tract and stomach of mechanically ventilated patients by a novel regimen of selective decontamination in combination with initial systemic cefotaxime

1990 • 35 citations

Infection prevention in intensive care by selective decontamination of the digestive tract

1990 • 23 citations

Megakaryocyte biology and precursors : In Vitro cloning and cellular properties : proceedings of the Symposium on Megakaryocytes In Vitro held at the Centers [i.e. Center] for Disease Control, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A., May 1-2, 1980

1981 • 22 citations

In vivo responses of mitochondrial redox levels to Eschericia coli bacteremia in primates

1990 • 21 citations

Einfluß der selektiven Dekontamination auf nosokomiale Infektionen, Erregerspektrum und Antibiotikaresistenz bei langzeitbeatmeten Intensivpatienten

1990 • 17 citations

Selektive Florasuppression zur Infektionskontrolle in der operativen Intensivmedizin

1989 • 12 citations

[The effect of selective decontamination on nosocomial infections, their causative agents and antibiotic resistance in long-term intubated intensive care patients].

1990 • 7 citations