Dear SIRS: It's Time to Return to Sepsis as We Have Known It

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 591-592

  Talan, David A ^a  

^a OLIVE VIEW UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROTRECOGIN;

APACHE; BRAIN OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY WARD; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OUTPATIENT CARE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; TREATMENT INDICATION;

HUMANS; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME;

EID: 33750088184     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2006.06.025     Document Type: Editorial

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