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From: Selective digestive decontamination, a seemingly effective regimen with individual benefit or a flawed concept with population harm?

Fig. 1

Schematic of ICU patients as intervention (right) and control (left) groups receiving mechanical ventilation in an ICU. The intervention and control groups are either concurrent (a–c), or non-concurrent (d) and separated by a physical or temporal barrier. The intervention groups receive topical antibiotic prophylaxis (TAP) with (b, c, d) or without protocolized parenteral antibiotic prophylaxis (PPAP) (a, d). Duplex studies are those where control group patients received PPAP (RCCT-duplex studies; c). The colour gradient indicates that the contextual effect emanating from intervention patients within the ICU that is implied by the SDD concept associated with the use of TAP

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