Management of multiple organ failure: Guidelines but no hard-and-fast rules

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 41, Issue SUPPL. A, 1998, Pages 103-112

  Singer, Mervyn ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT; CORTICOSTEROID; DOBUTAMINE; DOPEXAMINE; ENDOTOXIN ANTIBODY; FLUOROCARBON; FREE RADICAL; GROWTH HORMONE; INOTROPIC AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; NITRIC OXIDE; SOMATOMEDIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ANTIBODY; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; ANALGESIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLLOID; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; FLUID THERAPY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; IATROGENIC DISEASE; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MYOPATHY; NEUROPATHY; NEUTROPHIL; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PANCREATITIS; PARALYSIS; PHYSICAL MEDICINE; PHYSIOTHERAPY; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; SEDATION; SEPSIS; TISSUE INJURY; TISSUE OXYGENATION;

EID: 0031985365     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/41.suppl_1.103     Document Type: Conference Paper

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