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Gastric colonization and pneumonia in intubated critically ill patients receiving stress ulcer prophylaxis

DOI

123

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0

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1992

Year

Nitin M. Apte, Dilip R. Karnad, TUSHAR P. MEDHEKAR, G H Tilve, SWATI MORYE, GEETA G. BHAVE
Critical Care Medicine

Abstract

Pharmacologically increasing gastric pH increases the risk for developing pneumonia in intubated critically ill patients. The pneumonia occurs earlier than in untreated control patients.