Organ failures on admission in patients with Ebola virus disease

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1504-1505

  Bordes, Julien ^a,b   Janvier, Frédéric ^a,b   Aletti, Marc ^a,e   de Greslan, Thierry ^a,d   Gagnon, Nicolas ^a,c   Cotte, Jean ^a,b   Rousseau, Claire ^a,f   Billhot, Magali ^a,d   Cournac, Jean Marie ^a,e   Karkowski, Ludovic ^a,c   Moroge, Sophie ^a,g   Duron, Sandrine ^a,h   Carmoi, Thierry ^a,d   Cellarier, Gilles ^a,b  

^a French Military Ebola Virus Disease Treatment Centre   (Guinea)

^b Saint Anne Military Teaching Hospital   (France)

^c Legouest Military Teaching Hospital   (France)

^d University of Paris Descartes   (France)

^e Percy Military Teaching Hospital   (France)

^f Teaching Military Hospital Clermont Tonnerre   (France)

^g LAVERAN MILITARY TEACHING HOSPITAL   (France)

^h French Military Center for Epidemiology and Public Health   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; BLEEDING; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMA; DEHYDRATION; DYSPNEA; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIA; INFLAMMATION; INTENSIVE CARE; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LETTER; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEPSIS; SEQUENTIAL ORGAN FAILURE ASSESSMENT SCORE; VIRUS LOAD; ADULT; COMPLICATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PATIENT ADMISSION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84937816569     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-015-3912-0     Document Type: Letter

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