Caring for cancer Patients with severe sepsis: The more i see, the more i know, the less i understand⋯

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 308-310

  Soares, Márcio ^a,b   Lisboa, Thiago ^c  

^a D OR INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IDOR   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^c HOSPITAL SANTA RITA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CANCER PATIENT; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALNUTRITION; MORBIDITY; MYCOSIS; NEOPLASM; NEUTROPENIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; SHOCK, SEPTIC;

EID: 84055192839     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31823294af     Document Type: Editorial

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