Nosocomial infections and immunity: Lesson from brain-injured patients

Critical Care

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 266-270

  Dziedzic, Tomasz ^a   Slowik, Agnieszka ^a   Szczudlik, Andrzej ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Brain injury; Immunodepression; Infection; Intensive care

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ARGININE; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CATECHOLAMINE; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GLUCOCORTICOID; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; MIDAZOLAM; NUCLEOTIDE; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; PLACEBO; PROPOFOL; RANITIDINE; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIET THERAPY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG SAFETY; ENCEPHALITIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG INJURY; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE;

BRAIN INJURIES; CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IMMUNOLOGIC DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM;

EID: 4344689353     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc2828     Document Type: Review

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