Sepsis in burned patients

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 647-652

  De Macedo, Jefferson Lessa S ^a,c   Rosa, Simone C ^a   Castro, Cleudson ^b  

^a Hospital Regional da Asa Norte   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^c SQS 213 ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Burn; Hospital infection; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

IMIPENEM; OXACILLIN; SULTAMICILLIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BODY SURFACE; BRAZIL; BURN; DYSPNEA; ELECTRIC BURN; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; OLIGURIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCALD; SEPSIS; SEPTICEMIA; SEX RATIO;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDA; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0742271458     PISSN: 00378682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0037-86822003000600001     Document Type: Article

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