A prospective study of the use of a dobutamine stress test to identify outcome in patients with sepsis, severe sepsis, or septic shock

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2361-2366

  Rhodes, Andrew ^a   Lamb, Fiona J ^a   Malagon, Ignazio ^a   Newman, Philip J ^a   Grounds, R Michael ^a   Bennett, E David ^a  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dobutamine; Hemodynamics; Outcome; Oxygen transport; Sepsis; Septic shock; Supply dependency

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; DOBUTAMINE; DOPEXAMINE; LACTIC ACID; NORADRENALIN;

ADULT; AEROBIC METABOLISM; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MORTALITY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0032755847     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199911000-00007     Document Type: Article

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