The microcirculation of the critically ill pediatric patient

Critical Care

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Top, Anke P C ^a   Tasker, Robert C ^a   Ince, Can ^b  

^a CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

BLOOD FLOW; BODY TEMPERATURE; CAPILLARY BLOOD; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ERYTHROCYTE; FUNCTIONAL CAPILLARY DENSITY; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; METABOLIC RATE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROVASCULAR FLOW INDEX; ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATION SPECTRUM; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PEDIATRICS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULSE OXIMETRY; REVIEW; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TISSUE PERFUSION; VESSEL DENSITY INDEX; CHILD; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HOSPITAL; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; METHODOLOGY; MONITORING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE;

CHILD; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; MICROCIRCULATION; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PATIENT CARE TEAM;

EID: 79953020476     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc9995     Document Type: Review

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