Rhinosinusitis in the intensive care unit patients: A review of the possible underlying mechanisms and proposals for the investigation of their potential role in functional treatment interventions

Journal of Critical Care

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 171.e9-171.e14

  Riga, Maria ^a   Danielidis, Vasilios ^a   Pneumatikos, Ioannis ^b  

^a University Hospital of Alexadroupolis   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Intensive care; Nosocomial; Pathogenesis; Rhinosinusitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ATROPINE; BUDESONIDE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; NITRIC OXIDE; XYLOMETAZOLINE;

ALKALINIZATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BIOFILM; COMORBIDITY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FOREIGN BODY; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; NASOPHARYNX; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; RHINOSINUSITIS; SEPSIS; SEPTICEMIA; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

EID: 77049095357     PISSN: 08839441     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2009.11.008     Document Type: Article

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