Friday, May 28, 2010

Selective Digestive Decontamination decreases MODS

About 10 years ago we were doing SDD on all our ventilated patients, but we stopped because of a lack of good evidence of efficacy and the fear of developing bacterial resistance. A new Critical Care Medicine systematic review shows that SDD decreases MODS but not mortality.

It's not enough to change our practice, but it's still interesting nonetheless how the same stuff keeps coming up.

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