Biomarkers in the diagnosis of pneumonia in the critically ill: Don't shoot the piano player

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 981-984

  Ewig, Santiago ^a   Welte, Tobias ^b  

^a Augusta Kranken Anstalt   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; TRIGGERING RECEPTOR EXPRESSED ON MYELOID CELLS 1;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EDITORIAL; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG LAVAGE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEPSIS; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; TRACHEAL ASPIRATION PROCEDURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MYELOID CELLS; PNEUMONIA; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC;

EID: 46149090811     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-008-1088-6     Document Type: Editorial

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