Pediatric definitions for sepsis: It's about time!

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 83-84

  Parker, Margaret M ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Child; Consensus; Organ dysfunction; Pediatric; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

BODY TEMPERATURE; BRADYCARDIA; BREATHING RATE; EDITORIAL; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PEDIATRICS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; STANDARDIZATION; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYPNEA; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; NOMENCLATURE; NOTE; STANDARD;

CHILD; CLINICAL TRIALS; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCES; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PEDIATRICS; SEPSIS; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 21744459912     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PCC.0000149307.02324.05     Document Type: Editorial

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