Clinical assessment of hemodynamically unstable patients

Current Opinion in Critical Care

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 234-238

  Sevransky, Jonathan ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical illness; Physical examination; Septic shock; Shock

Indexed keywords

ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; BREATHING RATE; CAPILLARY FLOW; CAPILLARY REFILL TIME; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DRIVE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MOTIVATION; OLIGURIA; ORGAN PERFUSION; POPULATION; PREDICTION; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULSE RATE; REVIEW; RISK; STRATIFICATION; TECHNIQUE; TECHNOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE VOLUME; VITAL SIGN;

CLINICAL MEDICINE; CRITICAL CARE; DECISION MAKING; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SHOCK, SEPTIC;

EID: 68049132804     PISSN: 10705295     EISSN: 15317072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCC.0b013e32832b70e5     Document Type: Review

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