Corticosteroids in severe community-acquired pneumonia: The path we choose depends on where we want to get

Critical Care

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Salluh, Jorge I F ^a,b   Soares, Márcio ^a,b   Póvoa, Pedro ^c  

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

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CÂNCER   (Brazil)

^c Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Ocidental   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG USE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MORTALITY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; ARTICLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; EQUIPOISE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; PNEUMONIA;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PNEUMONIA; THERAPEUTIC EQUIPOISE;

EID: 84856204836     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc10099     Document Type: Note

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