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Acute stress bleeding prophylaxis with sucralfate versus ranitidine and incidence of secondary pneumonia in intensive care unit patients

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  1. Intensive Care Unit, Faculty of Medicine, K. T. Ü Farabi Hastanesi, Cerrahi Yoğun Bakim, TR-61080, Trabzon, Turkey

    N. A. Mustafa

  2. Department of Anaesthesia, Faculty of Medicine, K. T. Ü. Farabi Hastanesi, Cerrahi Yoğun Bakim, TR-61080, Trabzon, Turkey

    G. Aktürk, I. Özen, N. Erciyes & M. Solak

  3. Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, K. T. Ü. Farabi Hastanesi, Cerrahi Yoğun Bakim, TR-61080, Trabzon, Turkey

    I. Köksal

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Mustafa, N.A., Aktürk, G., Özen, I. et al. Acute stress bleeding prophylaxis with sucralfate versus ranitidine and incidence of secondary pneumonia in intensive care unit patients. Intensive Care Med 21, 287 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01701491

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