Mortality after fluid bolus in African children with sepsis [1]

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 365, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 1348-1353

  Ford, Stephen R ^a   Visram, Anil ^a  

^a ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; ALBUMINOID; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD VOLUME; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CIRCULATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNIC GROUP; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HEMODILUTION; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LETTER; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; INFECTION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; SHOCK;

ALBUMINS; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; HUMANS; INFECTION; MALE; SHOCK; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

EID: 80053558453     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1108712     Document Type: Letter

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