Clinical review: Thinking outside the box - an iconoclastic view of current practice

Critical Care

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Singer, Mervyn ^a   Matthay, Michael A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 6;

AIRWAY PRESSURE; ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DELIRIUM; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPEROXIA; HYPOXEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; MICRODIALYSIS; MORTALITY; ORGAN PERFUSION; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVIEW; SEPTIC SHOCK; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; SURVIVAL; TISSUE OXYGENATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; GROUP PROCESS; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT;

CATECHOLAMINES; CRITICAL CARE; DELIRIUM; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 84858245370     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc10245     Document Type: Review

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