Is early goal-directed therapy harmful to patients with sepsis and high disease severity?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 1265-1267

  Kalil, Andre C ^a   Kellum, John A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL ILLNESS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY GOAL DIRECTED THERAPY; EARLY INTERVENTION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PATIENT HARM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESUSCITATION; SEPSIS; EARLY GOAL-DIRECTED THERAPY; MORTALITY; SEPTIC SHOCK; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

EARLY GOAL-DIRECTED THERAPY; HUMANS; SEPSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SHOCK, SEPTIC;

EID: 85023739488     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000002513     Document Type: Editorial

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