Successful use of ECMO in adults with life-threatening infections

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 707-710

  MacLaren, G ^a   Pellegrino, V ^a   Butt, W ^a   Preovolos, A ^a   Salamonsen, R ^a  

^a ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

ECMO, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: life support, septic shock, staphylococcal septicaemia, psittacosis

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; DOBUTAMINE; FLUCLOXACILLIN; FUROSEMIDE; HYDROCORTISONE; MEROPENEM; NORADRENALIN; RIFAMPICIN; VANCOMYCIN; VASOPRESSIN;

ADULT; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; ORNITHOSIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEPTIC SHOCK; SEPTICEMIA; SPINE FRACTURE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 7244220051     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0310057x0403200519     Document Type: Article

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