Clinical review: Clinical imaging of the sublingual microcirculation in the critically ill - where do we stand?

Critical Care

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Bezemer, Rick ^a,b   Bartels, Sebastiaan A ^a,b,c   Bakker, Jan ^a   Ince, Can ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Location Alkmaar   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ACTIVATED PROTEIN C; ADRENALIN; DOBUTAMINE; DOPAMINE; DOPEXAMINE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HETASTARCH; NORADRENALIN; RINGER LACTATE SOLUTION; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT;

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; COLLOID; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGITAL IMAGING; FLUID RESUSCITATION; FLUID THERAPY; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; HEART FAILURE; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MICROCIRCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SUBLINGUAL MICROCIRCULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MOUTH FLOOR; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SHOCK, SEPTIC; VASCULARIZATION; VIDEO MICROSCOPY;

BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CRITICAL CARE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FLUID THERAPY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MOUTH FLOOR; PROGNOSIS; SEPSIS; SHOCK, SEPTIC; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS;

EID: 84862564353     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc11236     Document Type: Review

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