Critical Care Research and Practice
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 105348, 8 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/105348
Review Article
Use of Physiologic Reasoning to Diagnose and Manage Shock States
Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive H3580, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Received 30 November 2010; Revised 14 May 2011; Accepted 14 June 2011
Academic Editor: Samuel A. Tisherman
Copyright © 2011 Geoffrey Lighthall. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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