New recommendations for the use of corticosteroids in sepsis: Not so fast!

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2489-2490

  Salluh, Jorge I F ^a,b   Soares, Marcio ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CÂNCER   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPERTENSIVE AGENT; STEROID;

ADRENAL DISEASE; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CORTICOTROPIN TEST; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG INFUSION; DRUG MEGADOSE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LETTER; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; APACHE; CLASSIFICATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; NOTE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; APACHE; HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SEPSIS;

EID: 49949107383     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181777690     Document Type: Letter

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