Pleural effusions in fibrile medical ICU patients: Chest ultrasound study

Chest

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1274-1280

  Tu, Chih Yen ^a   Hsu, Wu Huei ^a   Hsia, Te Chun ^a   Chen, Hung Jen ^a   Tsai, Kuen Daw ^a   Hung, Chung Wen ^a   Shih, Chuen Ming ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Empyema; ICU; Pleural effusion; Thoracentesis; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBOLISM; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVALUATION; EXUDATE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEART FAILURE; HEMATOTHORAX; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PANCREATITIS; PLEURA EMPYEMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; SCREENING TEST; SEPSIS; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND DRAINAGE; WOUND INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURA EFFUSION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DRAINAGE; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 6344243284     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.126.4.1274     Document Type: Article

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