Novel biomarkers in critical care: Utility or futility?

Critical Care

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Ackland, Gareth L ^a   Mythen, Michael G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TROPONIN I; TROPONIN T;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEART FAILURE; HEART INJURY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEPSIS; BLOOD; CRITICAL ILLNESS; INTENSIVE CARE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; URINE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN;

EID: 41949137866     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc6127     Document Type: Article

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