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Continuous plasmafiltration in sepsis syndrome

Author: Heidi Robertshaw

Published in: Critical Care | Issue 1/1998

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Although randomised, this was a small study (30 patients). Neither difference in mortality nor number of organs failing reached statistically significant levels. The authors make no mention of any complications associated with PF. The acute phase response has evolutionary benefit and so, maybe, it is not surprising that a reduction in inflammatory markers has no beneficial effect on mortality. …

Reeves JH, Butt WW, Shann F, Layton JE, Stewart A, Waring PM, Presneill JJ: Continuous plasmafiltration in sepsis syndrome. Crit Care Med . 1999, 27: 2096-2104.PubMedCrossRef

Title: Continuous plasmafiltration in sepsis syndrome
Author: Heidi Robertshaw
Publication date: 01-12-1999
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: Critical Care / Issue 1/1998
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/ccf-1999-2343

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