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01-12-2016 | Focus Editorial
Focus on acute circulatory failure
Author:
Jan Bakker
Published in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Issue 12/2016
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Excerpt
A task force of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine published the results of a consensus conference on the definition, diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of circulatory failure [
1]. Circulatory failure was defined as a life-threatening, generalized form of acute circulatory failure with inadequate oxygen utilization by the cells resulting in cellular dysfunction as a result of dysoxia, i.e., the loss of the physiological independence of oxygen delivery and oxygen consumption associated with increased lactate levels. …