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01.03.2010 | Poster presentation
Outcome of patients receiving two or more infusions of activated protein C: a single-centre experience
verfasst von:
A Retter, S Lippett, R Beale, D Wyncoll
Erschienen in:
Critical Care
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Sonderheft 1/2010
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Excerpt
Patients frequently develop a second discrete episode of sepsis during an ICU stay such as ventilation-acquired pneumonia (VAP), or patients may have a second ICU admission unrelated to their initial presentation. In the PROWESS [
1] study, drotrecogin alfa (DAA) could not be given twice to the same patient; yet this may be a potentially life-saving intervention when a second episode of severe sepsis occurs. …