Critically ill migrants with infection: diagnostic considerations for intensive care physicians in Europe

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 245-248

  Poulakou, Garyphallia ^a   Bassetti, Matteo ^b   Timsit, Jean François ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b SANTA MARIA DELLA MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIPARASITIC AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; CROWDING (AREA); EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EUROPE; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTENSIVIST; MIGRANT; REFUGEE; REFUGEE CAMP; TRAVEL; TUBERCULOSIS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INTENSIVE CARE; MIGRATION; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGY;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EUROPE; HUMANS; INFECTION; PHYSICIANS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EID: 84955741218     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-015-4090-9     Document Type: Article

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