Common complications in the surgical intensive care unit

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue SUPPL. 9, 2010, Pages

  Sawyer, Robert G ^a   Tache Leon, Carlos A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

catheter related infections; critical care; cross infection; health care; Intensive care units; medical errors; pneumonia; postoperative complications; pulmonary embolism; quality assurance; venous thromboembolism; ventilator associated

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEM; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN; LINEZOLID; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; SULTAMICILLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTICOAGULATION; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CATHETER INFECTION; CROSS INFECTION; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG EMBOLISM; MEDICAL ERROR; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PATIENT SAFETY; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; MALE; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; UNITED STATES;

CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MEDICAL ERRORS; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956207344     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181ec68c9     Document Type: Article

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