One year ago not business as usual: Wound management, infection and psychoemotional control during tertiary medical care following the 2004 Tsunami disaster in southeast Asia

Critical Care

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Maegele, Marc ^a   Gregor, Sven ^a   Yuecel, Nedim ^a   Simanski, Christian ^a   Paffrath, Thomas ^a   Rixen, Dieter ^a   Heiss, Markus M ^a   Rudroff, Claudia ^a   Saad, Stefan ^a   Perbix, Walter ^a   Wappler, Frank ^a   Harzheim, Andreas ^a   Schwarz, Rosemarie ^a   Bouillon, Bertil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEFALOTIN; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFUROXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; GLYCOPEPTIDE; LINEZOLID; MEROPENEM; MEZLOCILLIN; OFLOXACIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; SULBACTAM; SULTAMICILLIN; TEICOPLANIN; TOBRAMYCIN; UNINDEXED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN; VORICONAZOLE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARM INJURY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DEBRIDEMENT; DRUG CHOICE; FEMALE; FRACTURE; FUNGEMIA; GERMANY; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LACERATION; LEG INJURY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROFLORA; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NEAR DROWNING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT CARE; PNEUMONIA; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PSYCHOTRAUMA; SINUSITIS; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THORAX INJURY; TOURISM; TSUNAMI; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND CARE; WOUND INFECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISASTER; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; EMOTION; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; AGED; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATURAL DISASTERS; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 33748338013     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc4868     Document Type: Article

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