Early treatment of imported falciparum malaria in the intermediate and intensive care unit setting: An 8-year single-center retrospective study

Critical Care

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Schwake, Lukas ^a   Streit, Judith ^a   Edler, Lutz ^b   Encke, Jens ^a   Stremmel, Wolfgang ^a   Junghanss, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ATOVAQUONE PLUS PROGUANIL; BILIRUBIN; DOXYCYCLINE; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN; MEFLOQUINE; QUININE;

ACIDOSIS; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLEEDING; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMA; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; COOPERATION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; EARLY INTERVENTION; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEMOGLOBINURIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; JAUNDICE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; OUTPATIENT CARE; PARASITEMIA; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEIZURE; SHOCK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TROPICAL MEDICINE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; MEDICAL RECORD; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAVEL;

ADULT; ANTIMALARIALS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAVEL;

EID: 41549124478     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc6796     Document Type: Article

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