Help Your Team Not Stress Over Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis

You’ll hear about new recommendations for stress ulcer prophylaxis (SUP) in the ICU...due to the first guideline update in 25 years.

Stress ulcer prophylaxis is used in some ICU patients to reduce the risk of stomach ulceration and bleeding caused by physical stress of illness. But many previous recommendations came from poorly designed studies.

Now updated guidelines from 3 large, well-designed trials are giving clearer insight into which ICU patients actually need SUP...helping to reduce unnecessary side effects, infection risk, etc.