Is the fall in platelet count associated with intensive care unit acquired pneumonia?

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 134, Issue 29-30, 2004, Pages 430-434

  Oguzulgen, I Kivilcim ^a,b   Ozis, Turkan ^a   Gursel, Gul ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Intensive care unit acquired pneumonia; Platelets; Thrombocytopenia; Ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; PARAMETER; PNEUMONIA; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 4544341170     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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