Prehospital treatment of sepsis: What really makes the "golden hour" golden?

Critical Care

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Sterling, Sarah A ^a   Puskarich, Michael A ^a   Jones, Alan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTENSIVIST; MORTALITY; ORGAN DYSFUNCTION SCORE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; PROCEDURES; RESUSCITATION;

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; RESUSCITATION; SEPSIS;

EID: 84924267346     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13054-014-0697-4     Document Type: Article

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