Recognition of Risk Factors and Prognostic Indicators in Fournier's Gangrene

Critical Care Nursing Quarterly

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 143-153

  Kaufmann, Judith A ^a   Ramponi, Denise ^a  

^a ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

coagulase negative staphylococci; fasciotomy; Fournier's gangrene; gangrenous cellulitis; gas gangrene; necrotizing cellulitis; necrotizing fasciitis

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATININE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GLUCOSE; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANUS; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BODY MASS; CASE REPORT; COLOSTOMY; CREAM; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEBRIDEMENT; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EMERGENCY WARD; ERYTHEMA; FEVER; FOURNIER GANGRENE; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMORRHOID; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOTENSION; INTENSIVIST; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEUKOCYTE; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NURSE; OBESITY; ORCHIECTOMY; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERINEUM; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM; RISK FACTOR; SCROTAL SWELLING; SCROTUM; SEPTIC SHOCK; SUPPOSITORY; SURGEON; TACHYCARDIA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREMOR; CELLULITIS; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; FATALITY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

CELLULITIS; DEBRIDEMENT; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; FATAL OUTCOME; FOURNIER GANGRENE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERINEUM; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SCROTUM; SHOCK, SEPTIC;

EID: 84957691741     PISSN: 08879303     EISSN: 15505111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CNQ.0000000000000055     Document Type: Article

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