Management of Peritonitis in the Critically Ill Patient

Surgical Clinics of North America

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1323-1349

  Ordoñez, Carlos A ^a   Puyana, Juan Carlos ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE   (Colombia)

^b PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CARBAPENEM; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERTAPENEM; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; PIPERACILLIN; STEROID; SULBACTAM; SULTAMICILLIN; TAZOBACTAM;

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ABDOMINAL WALL; ACUTE DISEASE; ANASTOMOSIS; ANATOMY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CHRONOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY INTERVENTION; ENTERIC FEEDING; FISTULA; HEALING; HEMODYNAMICS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTESTINE ANASTOMOSIS; INTESTINE PERFORATION; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORTALITY; PATIENT SAFETY; PERFUSION; PERITONEUM; PERITONEUM LAVAGE; PERITONITIS; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTTRAUMATIC COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; IRRIGATION; LAPAROTOMY; PERITONEUM; PERITONITIS; REOPERATION; RESUSCITATION;

EID: 33751268387     PISSN: 00396109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.suc.2006.09.006     Document Type: Review

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