Use of hydrocortisone for refractory shock in children

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Menon, Kusum ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EFFECT SIZE; HUMAN; LETTER; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SAMPLE SIZE; SEPTIC SHOCK; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

CRITICAL CARE; HUMANS; SEPSIS;

EID: 84884830122     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31828cf478     Document Type: Letter

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