Use of admission serum lactate and sodium levels to predict mortality in necrotizing soft-tissue infections

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 142, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 840-844

  Yaghoubian, Arezou ^a   De Virgilio, Christian ^a   Dauphine, Christine ^a   Lewis, Roger J ^a   Lin, Matthew ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID; SODIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TISSUE NECROSIS;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LACTATES; MALE; NECROSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SODIUM; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS;

EID: 34548729857     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.142.9.840     Document Type: Article

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