Etiology of illness in patients with severe sepsis admitted to the hospital from the emergency department

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 814-820

  Heffner, Alan C ^a,c   Horton, James M ^b   Marchick, Michael R ^c   Jones, Alan E ^c  

^a Divisions of 'Critical Care Medicine   (United States)

^b Department of Internal Medicine ^*  (United States)

^c CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED PROTEIN C; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DOBUTAMINE; STEROID;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADULT; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COMORBIDITY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS; DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROCOCCUS CASSELIFLAVUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FUNGUS CULTURE; GRAM STAINING; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIA; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PANCREATITIS; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS; PNEUMOCYSTOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SEPSIS; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP G; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS;

ADULT; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME;

EID: 77749245940     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/650580     Document Type: Article

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