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Other Evidence summaries
- Stress ulcer prevention is warranted in critically ill patients who are mechanically ventilated or who have coagulopathy. Both histamine-2-receptor antagonists and sucralfate are effective in reducing overt bleeding. Sucralfate may reduce the incidence of pneumonia and total mortality .
- Proton pump inhibitors appear to reduce rebleeding in patients with bleeding peptic ulcer .