Assessment of initial base deficit as a predictor of outcome: Mechanism of injury does make a difference

American Surgeon

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 689-693

  Tremblay, Lorraine N ^a   Feliciano, David V ^a,b   Rozycki, Grace S ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Surgery ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SEVERITY; LACERATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAB WOUND; SURVIVAL; DISORDERS OF ACID BASE BALANCE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; INJURY SCALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACID-BASE IMBALANCE; ADULT; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHOCK, HEMORRHAGIC; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 0036676149     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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