Middle East respiratory syndrome

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1015-1017

  Leung, Chi Hung Czarina ^a   Gomersall, Charles David ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BETACORONAVIRUS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTUBATION; MIDDLE EAST; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; VENTILATED PATIENT; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ALGORITHM; BLOOD; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; INTERFERON; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; RIBAVIRIN;

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; ALGORITHMS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERFERONS; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LYMPHOPENIA; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RIBAVIRIN; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 84903276800     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-014-3303-y     Document Type: Article

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