Association between timing of antibiotic administration and mortality from septic shock in patients treated with a quantitative resuscitation protocol

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2066-2071

  Puskarich, Michael A ^a   Trzeciak, Stephen ^b,c   Shapiro, Nathan I ^d   Arnold, Ryan C ^c   Horton, James M ^a   Studnek, Jonathan R ^a   Kline, Jeffrey A ^a   Jones, Alan E ^a  

^a CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Division of Critical Care Medicine   (United States)

^c UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Camden   (United States)

^d BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

antibiotics; emergency medicine; sepsis; septic shock

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; LACTIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESUSCITATION; SEPTIC SHOCK; THERAPY DELAY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 80051951653     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31821e87ab     Document Type: Article

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