Pathophysiology of tissue acidosis in septic shock: Blocked microcirculation or impaired cellular respiration?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 640-642

  Baumgart, Katja ^a   Radermacher, Peter ^a   Calzia, Enrico ^a   Hauser, Balázs ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

CO2 tonometry; Endotoxin; Orthogonal polarization spectrophotometry; Respiratory quotient; Sheep; Substrate utilization

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE; OXYGEN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SCAVENGER;

ACIDOSIS; CELL RESPIRATION; EDITORIAL; ENERGY METABOLISM; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTESTINE BLOOD FLOW; INTESTINE MUCOSA; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; MICROANGIOPATHY; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTIC SHOCK; TISSUE ACIDOSIS;

EID: 38549122792     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0B013E318162ED7B     Document Type: Editorial

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