What do sepsis-induced coagulation test result abnormalities mean to intensivists?

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 581-583

  Levi, Marcel ^a   Schultz, Marcus J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED PROTEIN C; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR; D DIMER; RECOMBINANT THROMBOMODULIN; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR CLEAVING PROTEINASE;

APACHE; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD CLOTTING TEST; CELL DAMAGE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; EDITORIAL; FIBRIN DEPOSITION; FIBRINOLYSIS; HUMAN; INTENSIVIST; LABORATORY TEST; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEPSIS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOSIS; BLOOD;

BLOOD COAGULATION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; HUMANS; SEPSIS;

EID: 85013176280     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-017-4725-0     Document Type: Editorial

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