Predictors of mortality in severe malaria: A two-year experience in a non-endemic area

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 217-223

  Blumberg, L ^a   Lee, R R ^a,b,c   Lipman, J ^a   Beards, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Intensive care: malaria; mortality, predictors, metabolic acidosis, lactate

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; HEMOGLOBIN; LACTIC ACID; QUININE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; FETUS MORTALITY; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY SCALE; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LABORATORY TEST; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MALARIA; MALE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SHOCK; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

EID: 0029865235     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0310057x9602400213     Document Type: Article

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