Microcirculation in distress: A new resuscitation end point?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1963-1964

  Ince, Can ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Microcirculation; Orthogonal polarization spectral imaging; Outcome; Sepsis; Sublingual

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

CYTOPATHOLOGY; EDITORIAL; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MICROCIRCULATION; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN SUPPLY; OXYGENATION; PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SURVIVAL; TISSUE PERFUSION; TONOMETRY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CAPILLARIES; HUMANS; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHOCK, SEPTIC; TONGUE;

EID: 4444269296     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000139617.88704.B9     Document Type: Editorial

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