Rationale for routine and immediate administration of intravenous estrogen for all critically ill and injured patients

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 10 SUPPL., 2010, Pages

  Wigginton, Jane G ^a,c   Pepe, Paul E ^a,b,c   Idris, Ahamed H ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c Texas Tech Health Sciences Center School of Pharmacy   (United States)

Author keywords

Anti inflammatory; Antiapoptotic; Burns; Cardiac arrest; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Estrogen; Hemorrhagic shock; Progesterone; Resuscitation; Trauma; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DRUG SAFETY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EMERGENCY CARE; HEART ARREST; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RESUSCITATION; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

EID: 78650380875     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181f243a9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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