The Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome

Disease-a-Month

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 476-526

  Mizock, Barry A ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DROTRECOGIN; ERYTHROPOIETIN; ETOMIDATE; FLUDROCORTISONE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; INSULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; PLACEBO; PROCALCITONIN; VASOACTIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; ACID BASE BALANCE; ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN DISEASE; CELL ENERGY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTINUOUS RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE COURSE; DISORDERS OF CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ENTERIC FEEDING; ENTEROPATHY; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEART FAILURE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY FAILURE; LABORATORY TEST; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LOW DRUG DOSE; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; METABOLIC DISORDER; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PERIPHERAL ISCHEMIA; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; REGIONAL PERFUSION; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SHOCK; TISSUE PERFUSION; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

HUMANS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE;

EID: 67649870309     PISSN: 00115029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.disamonth.2009.04.002     Document Type: Review

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