Just one drop: The significance of a single hypotensive blood pressure reading during trauma resuscitations

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1289-1294

  Seamon, Mark J ^a   Feather, Cristina ^b   Smith, Brian P ^b   Kulp, Heather ^a   Gaughan, John P ^a   Goldberg, Amy J ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Brief hypotension; Isolated hypotensive measurements; Trauma resuscitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INJURY; INJURY SEVERITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESUSCITATION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LACTATES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESUSCITATION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 77953770569     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181db05dc     Document Type: Article

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