Acid-base disorders evaluation in critically ill patients: We can improve our diagnostic ability

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1377-1382

  Boniatti, Márcio Manozzo ^a,b   Cardoso, Paulo Ricardo Cerveira ^a   Castilho, Rodrigo Kappel ^a   Vieira, Silvia Regina Rios ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acid base equilibrium; Acidosis; Outcomes; Prognosis; Strong ion gap

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISORDERS OF ACID BASE BALANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERCHLOREMIA; HYPERLACTATEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; METABOLIC ALKALOSIS; METABOLIC DISORDER;

ACID-BASE EQUILIBRIUM; ACIDOSIS; AGED; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BRAZIL; COHORT STUDIES; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ION TRANSPORT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 67650835574     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-009-1496-2     Document Type: Article

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