Abstract
Infection continues to be a major problem in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). In the past ten years the infection rate is essentially unchanged. The high infection rate is explained by a combination of several factors:
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ICU-patients have an impaired infection defence;
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the use of invasive techniques for monitoring and support;
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crowding healthy and colonized or infected patients in a relatively small area, where patients are subjected to multiple manipulations by the same personnel.
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Stoutenbeek, C.P., van Saene, H.K.F., Zandstra, D.F. (1988). Infection Prevention in the ICU by Selective Decontamination of the Digestive Tract with Topical Nonabsorbable Antibiotics. In: Kilian, J., Ahnefeld, F.W., Vanek, E. (eds) Antibakterielle Therapie. Klinische Anästhesiologie und Intensivtherapie, vol 36. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73986-6_17
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