Pro-Con debate: Steroid use in ACTH non-responsive septic shock patients with high baseline cortisol levels

Critical Care

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Annane, Djillali ^a   Fan, Eddy ^b   Herridge, Margaret S ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOTROPIN; ETOMIDATE; FLUDROCORTISONE; HYDROCORTISONE; NORADRENALIN; PLACEBO; STEROID;

ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORTICOTROPIN TEST; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SAFETY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; LOW DRUG DOSE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT DURATION; BLOOD; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION TEST; METHODOLOGY;

ADRENAL CORTEX FUNCTION TESTS; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; SHOCK, SEPTIC; STEROIDS;

EID: 34447617721     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc4856     Document Type: Review

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