Measuring microvascular blood flow in sepsis - A continuing challenge

Lancet

Volumn 360, Issue 9341, 2002, Pages 1187-1188

  Ware, Lorraine B ^a   Matthay, Michael A ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; DOPAMINE; HEMOGLOBIN; LACTIC ACID; NORADRENALIN; OXYGEN; PHENYLEPHRINE;

BLOOD FLOW; CAPILLARY; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CELL VOLUME; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG RESPONSE; ERYTHROCYTE; FINGER NAIL; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK; IMAGING; ISCHEMIA; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LEUKOCYTE; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG INJURY; MICROSCOPY; MICROVASCULATURE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NOTE; ORGAN PERFUSION; OXYGEN SUPPLY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PH; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPERFUSION INJURY; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; STOMACH MUCOSA; TECHNIQUE; THROMBUS; VASODILATATION;

EID: 0037136947     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(02)11292-X     Document Type: Note

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