ArticleCritical care (London, England)2018
Selective decontamination of the digestive tract in critical care: a teenage angst or coming of age issue?
Article in Critical care (London, England), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.
- Efficacy of a Shortened Oral Antibiotic Bowel Decontamination in Minimally Invasive Surgery for Diverticular Disease.Visceral medicine · 2025Article
- Progress in the study of the correlation between sepsis and intestinal microecology.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2024Review
- Ecological effects of selective oral decontamination on multidrug-resistance bacteria acquired in the intensive care unit: a case-control study over 5 years.Intensive care medicine · 2022Article
- Oral antibiotic bowel decontamination in open and laparoscopic sigmoid resections for diverticular disease.International journal of colorectal disease · 2021Article
- Selective Intestinal Decontamination as a Method for Preventing Infectious Complications (Review).Sovremennye tekhnologii v meditsine · 2021Review
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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.
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