The effect of increasing doses of norepinephrine on tissue oxygenation and microvascular flow in patients with septic shock

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1961-1966

  Jhanji, Shaman ^a   Stirling, Sarah ^a   Patel, Nakul ^a   Hinds, Charles J ^a   Pearse, Rupert M ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Global oxygen delivery; Microcirculation; Norepinephrine; Septic shock; Tissue oxygenation

Indexed keywords

NORADRENALIN; OXYGEN; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SEPTIC SHOCK;

AGED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; NOREPINEPHRINE; OXYGEN; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SHOCK, SEPTIC; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS;

EID: 66449113461     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181a00a1c     Document Type: Article

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