Postoperative sepsis

Current Opinion in Critical Care

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 396-401

  Fried, Elchanan ^a   Weissman, Charles ^a   Sprung, Charles ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

infection; postoperative mortality; postoperative sepsis; septic shock

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CD3 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

CATHETER INFECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INCIDENCE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE SEPSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79960779064     PISSN: 10705295     EISSN: 15317072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCC.0b013e328348bee2     Document Type: Review

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