Nucleated red blood cells are associated with a higher mortality rate in patients with surgical sepsis

Surgical Infections

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 360-365

  Desai, Sapana ^a   Jones, Stephen L ^a   Turner, Krista L ^a   Hall, Jeff ^a   Moore, Laura J ^b  

^a HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CREATININE; HEMOGLOBIN; LACTIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MORTALITY; NUCLEATED ERYTHROCYTE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL SEPSIS; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ERYTHROBLASTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS;

EID: 84871633830     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: 15578674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2011.089     Document Type: Article

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