Published in:
01-05-2015 | Editorial
Primum non nocere and challenging conventional treatment
Authors:
Adam M. Deane, Gordon H. Guyatt
Published in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Issue 5/2015
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Excerpt
If you knew that, for every 80 patients to whom you prescribed an acid-suppressive drug, 1 patient would develop a ventilator-associated pneumonia, and that, for every 100 patients to whom you prescribed these drugs, 1 patient would develop a Clostridium difficile infection, would you continue to prescribe these drugs? What if you knew that you needed to prescribe acid-suppressive drugs to more than 100 patients to prevent 1 patient from having a diagnostic endoscopy? …