Cerebrospinal fluid lactic acid levels: Accurate, fast, and inexpensive

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2383-2384

  Cunha, Burke A ^a,b  

^a WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN BINDING PROTEIN; LACTIC ACID;

ACUTE BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC MENINGITIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ERYTHROCYTE; FUNGAL MENINGITIS; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; LETTER; LISTERIOSIS; MENINGITIS; PARTIALLY TREATED BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRUS MENINGITIS;

EID: 80052975356     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e318223b939     Document Type: Letter

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