Intensive care medicine
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Intensive care medicine · May 2019
Multicenter Study Observational StudyCardiovascular clusters in septic shock combining clinical and echocardiographic parameters: a post hoc analysis.
Mechanisms of circulatory failure are complex and frequently intricate in septic shock. Better characterization could help to optimize hemodynamic support. ⋯ Our clustering approach on a large population of septic shock patients, based on clinical and echocardiographic parameters, was able to characterize five different cardiovascular phenotypes. How this could help physicians to optimize hemodynamic support should be evaluated in the future.