Alcohol and the intensive care unit: It's not just an antiseptic

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 627-628

  Gentilello, Larry M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol dependence; Alcohol interventions; Intensive care; Intoxication; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ALCOHOLISM; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MORTALITY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; ALCOHOLISM; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; SEPSIS;

EID: 33846433712     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000254070.23023.34     Document Type: Editorial

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