A survey on critical care resources and practices in low- and middle-income countries

Global Heart

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 337-342.E5

  Vukoja, Marija ^a   Riviello, Elisabeth ^b   Gavrilovic, Srdjan ^a   Adhikari, Neill K J ^c   Kashyap, Rahul ^d   Bhagwanjee, Satish ^e   Gajic, Ognjen ^d   Kilickaya, Oguz ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE;

AFRICA; BLOOD BANK; CAPACITY BUILDING; CHECKLIST; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; EASTERN EUROPE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; LOW INCOME COUNTRY; MECHANICAL VENTILATOR; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITOR; PLASMAPHERESIS; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; STAFF TRAINING; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; INCOME; POVERTY;

CRITICAL CARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; INCOME; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; POVERTY;

EID: 84927597372     PISSN: 22118160     EISSN: 22118179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gheart.2014.08.002     Document Type: Article

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