Randomised trials of 6 % tetrastarch (hydroxyethyl starch 130/0.4 or 0.42) for severe sepsis reporting mortality: Systematic review and meta-analysis

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 811-822

  Patel, Amit ^a,b   Waheed, Umeer ^a   Brett, Stephen J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

6 hydroxyethyl starch (HES) 130 0.4 or 0.42; 6 tetrastarch; Mortality; Renal; Severe sepsis

Indexed keywords

HETASTARCH;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; COLLOID; CRYSTALLOID; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; INTENSIVE CARE; MAIZE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRANSFUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

FLUID THERAPY; HETASTARCH; HUMANS; PLASMA SUBSTITUTES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SEPSIS;

EID: 84885022639     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-013-2863-6     Document Type: Review

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