Clinical review: The critical care management of the burn patient

Critical Care

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Snell, Jane A ^a   Loh, Ne Hooi W ^b   Mahambrey, Tushar ^c   Shokrollahi, Kayvan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AINTREE   (United Kingdom)

^b WALTON CENTRE FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^c WHISTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ALBUMIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTITHROMBIN; ASCORBIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; HEPARIN; HYDRALAZINE; HYDROCORTISONE; IBUPROFEN; INFUSION FLUID; INSULIN; KETANSERIN; NITRIC OXIDE; OXANDROLONE; PLASMA SUBSTITUTE; SALBUTAMOL; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TRANEXAMIC ACID;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BODY SURFACE; BURN; BURN PATIENT; BURN SHOCK; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; COLLOID; CONTINUOUS RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; CRUSH TRAUMA; CRYSTALLOID; ELECTRIC BURN; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FLUID RESUSCITATION; FLUID SHIFT; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERMETABOLISM; HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK; HYPOXIC LUNG VASOCONSTRICTION; INFLAMMATION; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG BURN; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG INJURY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; OXIMETRY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE OXIMETRY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESPIRATION CONTROL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; THERMAL INJURY; TRACHEOSTOMY; BURN UNIT; BURNS; COMPLICATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES;

BURN UNITS; BURNS; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HUMANS; RESUSCITATION;

EID: 84885186117     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc12706     Document Type: Review

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