Etomidate: Buy now, pay later?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3086-3087

  Lauzier, François ^a   Turgeon, Alexis F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

adrenal insufficiency; etomidate; intubation; mortality; sepsis

Indexed keywords

ETOMIDATE; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYPNOTIC AGENT; MIDAZOLAM; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT;

ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; AIRWAY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HEART FUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIA; HYPOXIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LOW DRUG DOSE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ASPIRATION; RISK; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; UNITED STATES;

ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; ETOMIDATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEPSIS;

EID: 84868248713     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3182653425     Document Type: Editorial

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