Antibiotics in sepsis and septic shock: Like everything else in life, timing is everything

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1211-1212

  Zubert, Shelly ^a   Funk, Duane J ^a   Kumar, Anand ^a  

^a Department of Anesthesiology   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EDITORIAL; HEART INFARCTION; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MORTALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; TRAUMATIC SHOCK; TREATMENT INDICATION; VENOUS OXYGEN TENSION;

EID: 77950213371     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181d69db7     Document Type: Editorial

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