Measurements in the intensive care unit: What do they mean?

Critical Care

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 415-416

  Marshall, John C ^a  

^a TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOGEN; HEMOGLOBIN; POTASSIUM; PROCALCITONIN;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEASUREMENT; OXYGEN SATURATION; PH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; RELIABILITY;

ADULT; CALCITONIN; CHILD; CRITICAL CARE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS;

EID: 0347531556     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc2400     Document Type: Article

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