Lactate Is a Better Predictor than Systolic Blood Pressure for Determining Blood Requirement and Mortality: Could Prehospital Measures Improve Trauma Triage?

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 210, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 861-867

  Vandromme, Marianne J ^a   Griffin, Russell L ^a   Weinberg, Jordan A ^a   Rue III, Loring W ^a   Kerby, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a Kentucky   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID;

ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLUNT TRAUMA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PENETRATING TRAUMA; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SHOCK; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; COHORT STUDIES; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LACTIC ACID; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHOCK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAGE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 77952295100     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2010.01.012     Document Type: Article

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