This should include the routes between the emergency and operating rooms, intensive care and the decontamination facilities.
Despite intensive supportive management, gut decontamination with multidose activated charcoal and correction of the metabolic acidosis with sodium bicarbonate and haemofiltration, the patient did not survive.
ante noctem, dd daily dose, ICU intensive care unit, SDD selective decontamination of digestive tract, TDM therapeutic drug monitoring Ref. [23].
There were also decontamination chambers, an intensive care unit and a communications briefing room, all surrounded by three to five feet of concrete.
One way to reduce the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia in the intensive care is selective digestive decontamination (SDD).
CFU: colony-forming unit; CoNS: coagulase-negative staphylococci; CRBSI: catheter-related bloodstream infection; CVC: central venous catheter; CVVH: continuous veno-venous hemofiltration; ICU: intensive care unit; SDD: selective decontamination of the digestive tract.
67 Gould and colleagues found no evidence of improvement in frequency of hand decontamination in surgical intensive care wards resulting from a series of educational lectures compared with no intervention (control).
Inclusion criteria Prospective randomised controlled trials that recruited adult patients in general intensive care units and studied selective digestive decontamination, selective oropharyngeal decontamination, or oropharyngeal chlorhexidine compared with standard care or placebo.
Despite all that bile, the dilemmas portrayed in Shaw's 1906 play might inform some thinking about how we distribute decontamination equipment and intensive-care teams; how we allocate protective gear, bio-containment facilities, isolation rooms, and life-saving vaccines.
ICU = intensive care unit; SDD = selective decontamination of the digestive tract.
See related Commentary After its first application in intensive care patients in 1984, selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD) has been the subject of intense debate between intensivists, infectious disease specialists, microbiologists and methodologists.
