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Viewpoint: Survival Benefit by Selective Decontamination of the Digestive Tract (SDD)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

H.K.F. van Saene ,
A.J. Nunn  and
A.J. Petros
H.K.F. van Saene*
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Liverpool, Royal Liverpool Children's NHS Trust, Liverpool, England
A.J. Nunn
Affiliation:
Department of Pharmacy, Royal Liverpool Children's NHS Trust, Liverpool, England
A.J. Petros
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiac Intensive Care, Royal Liverpool Children's NHS Trust, Liverpool, England
*
Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Liverpool, PO Box 147, Liverpool L69 3BX, England
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Abstract

Morbidity and mortality due to infection acquired either before or after admission to the intensive care unit is still a major problem. A limited range of potentially pathogenic microorganisms (PPM) are involved, and infection with these PPM usually follows a predictable pattern. Selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD) should be investigated further in patients with primarily curable diseases who are not infected on admission to intensive care but become infected there.

Type
From the Third International Conference on the Prevention of Infection
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 15 , Issue 7 , July 1994 , pp. 443 - 446
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1994

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