Choice of vasopressor in septic shock: Does it matter?

Critical Care

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Patel, Gourang P ^a   Balk, Robert A ^a  

^a RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CORTICOSTEROID; DOBUTAMINE; DOPAMINE; HYPERTENSIVE AGENT; LACTIC ACID; NORADRENALIN; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT;

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FLUID RESUSCITATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLYCOLYSIS; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; ISCHEMIA; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; ORGAN PERFUSION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTIC SHOCK; SURVIVAL RATE; DECISION MAKING; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SHOCK, SEPTIC; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS;

EID: 41949132022     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc6159     Document Type: Article

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