Implementation and outcomes of the Multiple Urgent Sepsis Therapies (MUST) protocol

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1025-1032

  Shapiro, Nathan I ^a   Howell, Michael D ^a   Talmor, Daniel ^a   Lahey, Dermot ^a   Ngo, Long ^a   Buras, Jon ^a   Wolfe, Richard E ^a   Weiss, J Woodrow ^a   Lisbon, Alan ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Early goal directed therapy; Mortality; Outcome; Protocol; Resuscitation; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DOBUTAMINE; DROTRECOGIN; GLUCOSE; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; INFUSION FLUID; INOTROPIC AGENT; INSULIN; LACTIC ACID; STEROID;

ADRENAL FUNCTION; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLOID; EMERGENCY WARD; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INSULIN TREATMENT; LUNG VENTILATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE URGENT SEPSIS THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; URBAN AREA;

AGED; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHOCK, SEPTIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33645805899     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000206104.18647.A8     Document Type: Article

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