Mortality risk stratification in elderly trauma patients based on initial arterial lactate and base deficit levels

American Surgeon

Volumn 77, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1337-1341

  Neville, Angela L ^a   Nemtsev, Denis ^a   Manasrah, Raed ^a   Bricker, Scott D ^a   Putnam, Brant A ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASE; LACTIC ACID;

ACID BASE BALANCE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLUNT TRAUMA; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ACID-BASE IMBALANCE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AREA UNDER CURVE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CALIFORNIA; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LACTIC ACID; MALE; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; TRIAGE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 80755159069     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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