Monitoring the microcirculation in the critically ill patient: Current methods and future approaches

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1813-1825

  De Backer, Daniel ^a   Ospina Tascon, Gustavo ^a   Sagado, Diamantino ^a   Favory, Raphaël ^a   Creteur, Jacques ^a   Vincent, Jean Louis ^a  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Capillaries; Cardiac output; Hemodynamic monitoring; Microcirculation; Outcome; Oxygen delivery

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY DENSITY; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; IMAGING; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROVASCULARIZATION; NEAR INFRARED REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; REFLECTOMETRY; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; TISSUE OXYGENATION; TISSUE PERFUSION; VIDEORECORDING;

CRITICAL ILLNESS; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MICROCIRCULATION; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; SEPSIS;

EID: 78650414203     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-010-2005-3     Document Type: Review

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