Clinical implications of temperature curve complexity in critically ill patients

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2764-2771

  Varela, Manuel ^a   Calvo, Marta ^a   Chana, Miriam ^a   Gomez Mestre, Ivan ^b   Asensio, Rosa ^a   Galdos, Pedro ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE MÓSTOLES   (Spain)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximate entropy; Body temperature; Complexity analysis; Multiple organ failure; Nonlinear dynamics; Sequential Organ Failure Assessment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DEATH; ENTROPY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SPAIN; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 29144506888     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000190157.64486.03     Document Type: Article

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