Persistent-microcirculatory alterations are associated with organ failure and death in patients with septic shock

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1825-1831

  Sakr, Yasser ^a   Dubois, Marc Jacques ^a   De Backer, Daniel ^a   Creteur, Jacques ^a   Vincent, Jean Louis ^a  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Microcirculation; Multiple organ failure; Orthogonal polarization spectral imaging; Outcome; Tissue oxygenation

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE; DOPAMINE; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; NORADRENALIN; PROPOFOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPTIC SHOCK; SURVIVAL TIME; TISSUE OXYGENATION;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BELGIUM; CAPILLARIES; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OXYGEN; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHOCK, SEPTIC; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TONGUE;

EID: 4444233598     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000138558.16257.3F     Document Type: Article

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