Unmeasured anions in critically ill patients: Can they predict mortality?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 2131-2136

  Rocktaeschel, Jens ^a   Morimatsu, Hiroshi ^a   Uchino, Shigehiko ^a   Bellomo, Rinaldo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BICARBONATE; CALCIUM ION; CHLORIDE ION; LACTIC ACID; MAGNESIUM ION; PHOSPHATE; POTASSIUM ION; SODIUM ION;

ACID BASE BALANCE; ADULT; AGED; ALKALOSIS; ARTERIAL PH; ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERLACTATEMIA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM;

ACID-BASE EQUILIBRIUM; ACIDOSIS, LACTIC; AGED; APACHE; BICARBONATES; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CALCIUM; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHLORIDES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LACTIC ACID; MAGNESIUM; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; PHOSPHATES; POTASSIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERUM ALBUMIN; SODIUM; VICTORIA;

EID: 0043281594     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000079819.27515.8E     Document Type: Article

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