Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: A Serum total antioxidant capacity reflects severity of illness in patients with severe sepsis. | Available online http content 10 1 R36 Research Serum total antioxidant capacity reflects severity of illness in patients with severe sepsis Chia-Chang Chuang1 2 Shu-Chu Shiesh3 Chih-Hsien Chi1 Yi-Fang Tu1 2 Lien-I Hor4 ChiChang Shieh4 and Ming-Feng Chen5 6 Open Access Department of Emergency Medicine College of Medicine National Cheng Kung University Tainan Taiwan institute of Clinical Medicine National Cheng Kung University Tainan Taiwan 3Department of Medical Technology College of Medicine National Cheng Kung University Tainan Taiwan 4Department of Microbiology and Immunology College of Medicine National Cheng Kung University Tainan Taiwan 5Department of Internal Medicine Show Chwan Memorial Hospital Changhua Taiwan 6Graduate Institute of Integration Chinese and Western Medicine China Medical University Taichung Taiwan Corresponding author Ming-Feng Chen cmffly@ Received 21 Oct 2005 Revisions requested 30 Nov 2005 Revisions received 16 Dec 2005 Accepted 26 Jan 2006 Published 20 Feb 2006 Critical Care 2006 10 R36 doi cc4826 This article is online at http content 10 1 R36 2006 Chuang et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. See related letter by Giovannini et al. http content 1 0 5 421 Abstract Introduction We conducted the present study to evaluate the changes in serum total antioxidant capacity TAC in patients with severe sepsis and to investigate the association between serum TAC and clinical severity. Method This was a prospective observational study involving a sample of patients who met established criteria for severe sepsis and were admitted to the emergency department of a university teaching hospital. Serum TAC was determined using the total .
