Global health care of the critically ill in low-resource settings

Annals of the American Thoracic Society

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 509-513

  Murthy, Srinivas ^a,b   Adhikari, Neill K ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences   (Canada)

Author keywords

Critical care; Developing countries; Global health; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INJURY; INTENSIVE CARE; OXYGEN THERAPY; PNEUMONIA; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RESUSCITATION; SEPSIS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FLUID THERAPY; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; PNEUMONIA; SEPSIS; WATER-ELECTROLYTE IMBALANCE; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84892143352     PISSN: 23256621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.201307-246OT     Document Type: Article

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