Age and ageing
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study Comparative Study
The role of selective decontamination of the digestive tract in acute stroke.
following a stroke, morbidity and mortality is high, with aspiration pneumonia being a common complication. ⋯ high carriage of and colonisation by AGNB was found within this study, which was reduced by the addition of SDD. Although SDD reduced the presence of both organisms and documented episodes of pneumonia, mortality remained unchanged.