Hyperglycemia is associated with morbidity in critically ill children with meningococcal sepsis

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 636-640

  Day, Kerry M ^a,b   Haub, Nadja ^a,b   Betts, Helen ^b,c   Inwald, David P ^b,c  

^a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Pediatrics ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; DOBUTAMINE; DOPAMINE; GLUCOSE; HYDROCORTISONE; INSULIN; NORADRENALIN; VASOPRESSIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; CHILD; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONTINUOUS HEMOFILTRATION; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DRUG UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INFANT; INSULIN TREATMENT; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENINGOCOCCEMIA; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SHOCK; SKIN NECROSIS; STEROID THERAPY; UNITED KINGDOM; BLOOD; CROSS INFECTION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; SEPSIS;

BLOOD GLUCOSE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INSULIN; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; MORBIDITY; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS;

EID: 60549116888     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0b013e31818d350b     Document Type: Article

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