Sepsis caused by peripelvic soft tissue infections in critically injured patients with multiple injuries and unstable pelvic fracture

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1548-1554

  Kataoka, Yuichi ^a   Minehara, Hiroaki ^a   Shimada, Ken ^a   Nishimaki, Hiroshi ^a   Soma, Kazui ^a   Maekawa, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Pelvic fracture; Sepsis; Soft tissue infection

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BALLOON OCCLUSION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLUNT TRAUMA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INTERNAL ILIAC ARTERY; LUMBAR ARTERY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; MUSCLE ABSCESS; MUSCLE DISEASE; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PELVIS FRACTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SKIN ABSCESS; SKIN NECROSIS; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SPINAL CORD BLOOD FLOW; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FRACTURE; MIDDLE AGED;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; SEPSIS; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67749130815     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181a51b0e     Document Type: Article

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