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Intensive Care Medicine
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine 3/2009

01-03-2009 | Editorial

Shedding light on microcirculation?

Authors: Jukka Takala, Stephan M. Jakob

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 3/2009

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Hypovolemia due to hemorrhage is a common problem in emergency and intensive care medicine. The clinical signs of severe acute hypovolemia are hardly controversial, and include tachycardia, hypotension, reduced central and peripheral venous filling, cold periphery, oliguria, and as a preterminal symptom, decreased level of consciousness [1]. Impaired microcirculation, observed as reduced skin temperature and decreased capillary perfusion (slow recapillarization), is a well-recognized component of this clinical entity, and tends to recover last during resuscitation. As is the case with many clinical entities, severe hypovolemia is relatively easy to recognize but difficult to define with numbers. …
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Metadata
Title
Shedding light on microcirculation?
Authors
Jukka Takala
Stephan M. Jakob
Publication date
01-03-2009
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 3/2009
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-008-1386-z

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