Predictors of outcome in myxoedema coma: A study from a tertiary care centre

Critical Care

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Dutta, Pinaki ^a   Bhansali, Anil ^a   Masoodi, Shriq ^a   Bhadada, Sanjay ^a   Sharma, Navneet ^a   Rajput, Rajesh ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIURETIC AGENT; HYDROCORTISONE; LEVOTHYROXINE; SEDATIVE AGENT; THYROXINE;

ADULT; AGED; APACHE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRADYCARDIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTHERMIA; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MYXEDEMA; MYXEDEMA COMA; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; VALIDITY; WINTER; BLOOD; CLASSIFICATION; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROC CURVE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APACHE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MYXEDEMA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SEPSIS; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROXINE;

EID: 38549133913     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc6211     Document Type: Article

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