Effect of classic heatstroke on serum procalcitonin

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1362-1365

  Nylén, Eric S ^a,b   Al Arifi, Abdullah ^c   Becker, Kenneth L ^a,b   Snider Jr , Richard H ^a   Alzeer, Abdulaziz ^d  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

^d KING KHALID UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

APACHE II; Cooling time; Heatstroke; Serum procalcitonin; Survival

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN; HORMONE PRECURSOR; PROCALCITONIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HEAT STROKE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERPYREXIA; INFLAMMATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; APACHE; CALCITONIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CRYOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HEAT STROKE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030812322     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199708000-00024     Document Type: Article

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