Disparity between skin perfusion and sublingual microcirculatory alterations in severe sepsis and septic shock: A prospective observational study

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1294-1298

  Boerma, E Christiaan ^a,b   Kuiper, Michael A ^a   Kingma, W Peter ^a   Egbers, Peter H ^a   Gerritsen, Rik T ^a   Ince, Can ^b  

^a MEDICAL CENTER LEEUWARDEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Microcirculation; Orthogonal polarization spectral imaging; Peripheral circulation; Sepsis; Skin perfusion; Temperature gradient

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

AGED; APACHE; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH FLOOR; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; SHOCK, SEPTIC;

EID: 46149087563     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-008-1007-x     Document Type: Article

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