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Research highlight: Cortisol insufficiency in prolonged illness
Decreased cortisol levels in the majority of intensive care unit longstayers suggests the need for repeated adrenal function testing in patients with prolonged critical illness, finds a study of 53 acutely ill patients.
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Not accurate method
(M. Ignacio Monge Garca, 28Mar2008)
Very interesting idea. But I think that there is something that has been omitted: to draw a venous return curve using the proposed methodology, one must assume that the cardiac...
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