In addition, we must vigorously restrict present common ICU practices. These include a whole variety of
practices (from tubes to traction to treatment tradition)
that produce the prolonged enforced supine position, the
use of multiple broad-spectrum antibiotics for the septic
response with organ failures without evidence of localized
invasive infection, the use of gastric alkalinizing regimens,
and the tradition of no enteral feeding. We need to support
the use of sucralfate, and narrow-spectrum antibiotics only
for identified infection.