Prognostic value of clinicopathologic variables obtained at admission and effect of antiendotoxin plasma on survival in septic and critically ill foals

Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 569-574

  Peek, Simon F ^a   Semrad, Sue ^a   McGuirk, Sheila M ^a   Riseberg, Ase ^a   Slack, Jo Ann ^a   Marques, Fernando ^a   Coombs, Dane ^a   Lien, Laura ^a   Keuler, Nicholas ^b   Darien, Benjamin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Plasma; Sepsis; Systemic inflammatory response syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANTILIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE ANTIBODIES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EVALUATION; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; PATIENT ADMISSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; WISCONSIN;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 33646851430     PISSN: 08916640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1892/0891-6640(2006)20[569:PVOCVO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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