Hemoadsorption therapy for sepsis syndromes

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 323-324

  Kellum, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical appraisal; Critical care medicine education; Evidence based medicine; Hemoadsorption; Hemoperfusion; Journal club; Medical evaluation; Medical literature; Sepsis; Streptococcus; Superantigen; Teaching; Toxic shock

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ENDOTOXIN; EXOTOXIN; POLYMYXIN B; SUPERANTIGEN;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; EDITORIAL; GRAM NEGATIVE SEPSIS; HEMADSORPTION; HEMOPERFUSION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; HEMOPERFUSION; HUMANS; RATS; SEPSIS; SHOCK, SEPTIC; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SUPERANTIGENS;

EID: 0037253335     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200301000-00060     Document Type: Editorial

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