Severe sepsis in older adults

Critical Care Nursing Quarterly

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 259-270

  Umberger, Reba ^a   Callen, Bonnie ^a   Brown, Mary Lynn ^a  

^a and Fellow Transcultural Nursing Society Scholars   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical care; Immunosenescence; Older adults; Organ failure; Severe sepsis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; ETHINYLESTRADIOL PLUS MEGESTROL ACETATE; PROCALCITONIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; BODY COMPOSITION; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONFUSION; DECREASED APPETITE; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEVER; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER FUNCTION; LONG TERM CARE; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; LUNG COMPLIANCE; MENTAL HEALTH; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NUTRITION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHARMACEUTICAL CARE; PNEUMONIA; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RENAL CLEARANCE; SEPSIS; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; UNSTEADY GAIT; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VERY ELDERLY; COMPLICATION; IMMUNOSENESCENCE; INTENSIVE CARE NURSING;

AGED; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL CARE NURSING; HUMANS; IMMUNOSENESCENCE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; SEPSIS;

EID: 84942615048     PISSN: 08879303     EISSN: 15505111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CNQ.0000000000000078     Document Type: Article

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