The accuracy of pulse oximetry in emergency department patients with severe sepsis and septic shock: A retrospective cohort study

BMC Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Wilson, Ben J ^a   Cowan, Hamish J ^b   Lord, Jason A ^b   Zuege, Dan J ^a,b   Zygun, David A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VASOACTIVE AGENT; OXYGEN;

ACCURACY; ACIDOSIS; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY PATIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERLACTATEMIA; HYPOXEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PULSE OXIMETRY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPTIC SHOCK; BLOOD; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; OXIMETRY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXIMETRY; OXYGEN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SHOCK, SEPTIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951808278     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471227X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-227X-10-9     Document Type: Article

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