Clinical review: A systematic review of corticosteroid use in infections

Critical Care

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Aberdein, Jody ^a   Singer, Mervyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BUDESONIDE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYTOKINE; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE; INTERFERON; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PLACEBO; PREDNISOLONE; TETRACOSACTIDE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BELL PALSY; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CROUP; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; CYSTICERCOSIS; DATA BASE; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INFECTION; INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS; LEPROSY; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALARIA; MONOTHERAPY; MORTALITY; NEBULIZATION; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PERICARDITIS; PERTUSSIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SEPTIC SHOCK; SHOCK; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT DURATION; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS; TUBERCULOUS PLEURISY; TYPHOID FEVER; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VIRAL BRONCHIOLITIS; VIRUS HEPATITIS; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; WHEEZING;

EID: 34447534528     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc3904     Document Type: Review

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