Debate: Albumin administration should not be avoided

Critical Care

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 147-150

  Allison, Simon P ^a,b   Lobo, Dileep N ^a  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Albumins; Colloids; Critical illness; Crystalloids; Hypovolaemia

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN;

COLLOID; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CRYSTALLOID; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; HYPOVOLEMIA; METHODOLOGY; PLASMA VOLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALBUMINS; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; META-ANALYSIS; PATIENT SELECTION; PLASMA VOLUME; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESUSCITATION; SHOCK;

EID: 0034044521     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc687     Document Type: Review

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