Epidemiologic features, risk factors, and outcome of sepsis in stroke patients treated on a neurologic intensive care unit

Journal of Critical Care

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 241-248

  Berger, Benjamin ^a   Gumbinger, Christoph ^a   Steiner, Thorsten ^a,b   Sykora, Marek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b SANOFI   (France)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Intensive care unit; Mortality; Outcome; Sepsis; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEART FAILURE; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; ISCHEMIA; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORTALITY; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SIMPLIFIED ACUTE PHYSIOLOGY SCORE; VERY ELDERLY; COMPLICATION; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INTENSIVE CARE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STROKE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM DISEASES; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; STROKE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896725913     PISSN: 08839441     EISSN: 15578615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2013.11.001     Document Type: Article

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