Autonomic dysfunction predicts both 1- and 2-month mortality in middle-aged patients with multiple organ dysfunction syndrome

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 967-970

  Schmidt, Hendrik ^a   Hoyer, Dirk ^b   Hennen, Ralf ^a   Heinroth, Konstantin ^a   Rauchhaus, Mathias ^c   Prondzinsky, Roland ^a   Hottenrott, Kuno ^a   Buerke, Michael ^a   Müller Werdan, Ursula ^a   Werdan, Karl ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II score; Heart rate variability; Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; FOLLOW UP; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 44449108288     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0B013E3181653263     Document Type: Article

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