High central venous oxygen saturation in the latter stages of septic shock is associated with increased mortality

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[1] Dellinger RP(2008)Surviving Sepsis Campaign: international guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock: 2008 Crit Care Med 36 296-327

[2] Levy MM(2006)Venous oximetry Curr Opin Crit Care 12 263-268

[3] Carlet JM(2005)The international sepsis forum consensus conference on definitions of infection in the intensive care unit Crit Care Med 33 1538-1548

[4] Bion J(1993)A new Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS II) based on a European/North American multicenter study JAMA 270 2957-2963

[5] Parker MM(1996)The SOFA (Sepsis-related Organ Failure Assessment) score to describe organ dysfunction/failure. On behalf of the Working Group on Sepsis-Related Problems of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Intensive Care Med 22 707-710

[6] Jaeschke R(2006)A reappraisal of isoproterenol in goal-directed therapy of septic shock Shock 26 353-357

[7] Reinhart K(2001)Early goal-directed therapy in the treatment of severe sepsis and septic shock N Engl J Med 345 1368-1377

[8] Angus DC(1995)A trial of goal-oriented hemodynamic therapy in critically ill patients. SvO2 Collaborative Group N Engl J Med 333 1025-1032

[9] Brun-Buisson C(2009)Impact of emergency intubation on central venous oxygen saturation in critically ill patients: a multicenter observational study Crit Care 13 R63-102

[10] Beale R(2010)Central venous oxygen saturation for the diagnosis of low cardiac output in septic shock patients Acta Anaesthesiol Scand 54 98-46