Editorial: Clinical microvascular monitoring: A bright future without a future?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2980-2981

  Mik, Egbert G ^a   Johannes, Tanja ^b   Fries, Michael ^c  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hemodynamic monitoring; Microcirculation; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MICROVASCULARIZATION; NONHUMAN; ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATION SPECTROSCOPY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SHOCK; SPECTROSCOPY; ANIMAL; BLOOD; INTESTINE; INTESTINE MUCOSA; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROCIRCULATION; MOUTH; MOUTH MUCOSA; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; INTESTINES; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; MOUTH FLOOR; MOUTH MUCOSA; SHOCK, SEPTIC;

EID: 73449139061     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181aff81c     Document Type: Editorial

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