The impact of cormorbid conditions on critical illness

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2728-2735

  Esper, Annette M ^a   Martin, Greg S ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

comorbid illness; comorbidities; critical illness; intensive care unit

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ASTHMA; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COLITIS; COMORBIDITY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENCEPHALITIS; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; EPILEPTIC STATE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATITIS; HEPATOPULMONARY SYNDROME; HEPATORENAL SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYDROTHORAX; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG EDEMA; MENINGITIS; MORTALITY; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; NEOPLASM; OBESITY; PANCREATITIS; PNEUMONIA; PORTOPULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SURVIVAL; VARICOSIS;

COMORBIDITY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIABETES MELLITUS; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; NEOPLASMS; OBESITY; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 81855226057     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e318236f27e     Document Type: Review

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