In silico modeling: Methods and applications to trauma and sepsis

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2008-2014

  Vodovotz, Yoram ^a,b   Billiar, Timothy R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Inflammation; Mathematical model; Sepsis; Trauma

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER MODEL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMAN; INJURY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEPSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEPSIS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84880960789     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31829a6eb4     Document Type: Review

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