Oxygen delivery, oxygen consumption, and gastric intramucosal pH are not improved by a computer-controlled, closed-loop, vecuronium infusion in severe sepsis and septic shock

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 72-77

  Freebairn, Ross C ^a,b   Derrick, James ^a   Gomersall, Charles D ^a   Young, Robert J ^a   Joynt, Gavin M ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Hastings Memorial Hospital   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

closed loop infusion; computer; gastric intramucosal pH; gastric tonometry; hemodynamic; neuromuscular block; oxygen consumption; oxygen delivery; septic shock; severe sepsis; vecuronium

Indexed keywords

NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; OXYGEN; VECURONIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG COMPLIANCE; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK;

ADULT; AGED; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; FEMALE; GASTRIC MUCOSA; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INFUSION PUMPS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMUSCULAR NONDEPOLARIZING AGENTS; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SEPSIS; SHOCK, SEPTIC; STOMACH; VECURONIUM BROMIDE;

EID: 0031030603     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199701000-00015     Document Type: Article

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