Adjunctive corticosteroid therapy in pediatric severe sepsis: Many unsolved questions

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 101-102

  Leclerc, Francis ^a   Botte, Astrid ^a   Chêne, Geneviève ^b   Leteurtre, Stéphane ^a  

^a LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b BORDEAUX UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

adjunctive corticosteroid therapy; adrenal insufficiency; pediatric; Pediatric Logistic Organ Dysfunction score; Pediatric Multiple Organ Dysfunction Score; quantitative scale; severe sepsis

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; ETOMIDATE; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPERTENSIVE AGENT; VASOPRESSIN;

ADRENAL FUNCTION; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PEDIATRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK;

EID: 78751651764     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0b013e3181d9c72b     Document Type: Editorial

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