Hypothermia predicts mortality in critically ill elderly patients with sepsis

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Tiruvoipati, Ravindranath ^a   Ong, Kevin ^a   Gangopadhyay, Himangsu ^a   Arora, Subhash ^a   Carney, Ian ^a   Botha, John ^a  

^a FRANKSTON HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SEPSIS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEPSIS;

EID: 77957168141     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-10-70     Document Type: Article

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