Lactate and base deficit in trauma: Does alcohol or drug use impair their predictive accuracy?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 959-966

  Dunne, James R ^a   Tracy, J Kathleen ^a   Scalea, Thomas M ^a   Napolitano, Lena M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BASE; COCAINE; ILLICIT DRUG; LACTIC ACID; METHAMPHETAMINE; PHENCYCLIDINE;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING;

ACID-BASE IMBALANCE; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LACTIC ACID; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MARYLAND; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT ADMISSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 20144366065     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TA.0000158508.84009.49     Document Type: Article

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