Microcirculation in the ICU: A small step for monitoring, a giant leap for tissue viability

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 233-234

  Favory, Raphael ^a   Mathieu, Daniel ^a  

^a LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Microcirculation; Oxygenation

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HYPERLACTATEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; METABOLISM; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROVASCULATURE; PATIENT MONITORING; PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SEQUENTIAL ORGAN FAILURE ASSESSMENT SCORE; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; TISSUE OXYGENATION; TISSUE VIABILITY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; MALE; SHOCK;

CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; SHOCK;

EID: 84925666680     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000590     Document Type: Editorial

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