Beneficial effect of corticosteroids in catecholamine-dependent septic burn patients

Burns

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 306-311

  Fuchs, P Ch ^a   Bozkurt, A ^a   Johnen, D ^a   Smeets, R ^a   Groger, A ^a   Pallua, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Burns; Catecholamine; Cortisol; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; CORTICOSTEROID; HYDROCORTISONE; NORADRENALIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BURN INFECTION; BURN UNIT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPTIC SHOCK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SWAN GANZ CATHETER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BURNS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOREPINEPHRINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHOCK, SEPTIC; STEROID 11-BETA-HYDROXYLASE; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 33947198687     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2006.07.026     Document Type: Article

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