How microcirculation data have changed my clinical practice

Current Opinion in Critical Care

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 324-331

  Büchele, Gustavo Luiz ^a   Ospina Tascon, Gustavo Adolfo ^a   De Backer, Daniel ^a  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Circulatory failure; Diagnostics imaging; Human; Monitoring; Orthogonal polarization spectral; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ARGININE; DOBUTAMINE; DOPEXAMINE; DROTRECOGIN; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; INOTROPIC AGENT; ISOPRENALINE; NORADRENALIN; TERLIPRESSIN; VASOACTIVE AGENT; VASODILATOR AGENT; VASOPRESSIN;

ADAPTATION; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG TARGETING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; IMAGING; LEUKOCYTE; LOW DRUG DOSE; METABOLISM; MICROANGIOPATHY; MICROCIRCULATION; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; TISSUE PERFUSION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ANIMALS; CARBON DIOXIDE; HUMANS; MICROCIRCULATION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 34249017299     PISSN: 10705295     EISSN: 15317072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCC.0b013e3280c1e5c5     Document Type: Review

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