Sepsis: A landscape from the emergency department to the intensive care unit

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 968-969

  Rivers, Emanuel P ^a   Nguyen, H Bryant ^a   Amponsah, David ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Emergency department; Landscape; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; INFUSION FLUID; INOTROPIC AGENT; PROCALCITONIN;

EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY WARD; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

CRITICAL CARE; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; SEPSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0037350230     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000057402.00102.AD     Document Type: Editorial

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