Measurements of total plasma nitrite and nitrate in pediatric patients with the systemic inflammatory response syndrome

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1071-1078

  Spack, Lawrence ^a   Havens, Peter L ^a   Griffith, Owen W ^a  

^a Children's Hospital of Wisconsin   (United States)

Author keywords

Endothelium; Hypotension; Nitrate; Nitric oxide; Nitrite; Pediatrics; Sensitivity; Septic shock; Specificity; Systemic inflammatory response syndrome

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; NITRITE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEVER; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTIC SHOCK;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; NITRATES; NITRITES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SHOCK, SEPTIC; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME;

EID: 0030940321     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199706000-00027     Document Type: Article

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