Elderly trauma patients have high circulating noradrenaline levels but attenuated release of adrenaline, platelets, and leukocytes in response to increasing injury severity

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1844-1850

  Johansson, Pär I ^a   Sørensen, Anne Marie ^b,c   Perner, Anders ^c   Welling, Karen Lise ^c   Wanscher, Michael ^c   Larsen, Claus F ^c   Ostrowski, Sisse R ^a  

^a Section for Transfusion Medicine   (Denmark)

^b Department of Anesthesia   (Denmark)

^c Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

Author keywords

adrenaline; aging; catecholamines; coagulopathy; glycocalyx; inflammation; noradrenaline; platelets; trauma

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED PROTEIN C; ADRENALIN; ANTITHROMBIN; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 13; CATECHOLAMINE; CD40 LIGAND; COMPLEMENT; COMPLEXED DNA FRAGMENT; D DIMER; DNA; ENDOTHELIAL PROTEIN C RECEPTOR; FIBRINOGEN; HISTONE; INTERLEUKIN 6; LIPOCORTIN 5; NORADRENALIN; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR INHIBITOR 1; PROTEIN C; PROTEIN S; PROTHROMBIN COMPLEX; PROTHROMBIN FRAGMENT 1.2; SOLUBLE ENDOTHELIAL PROTEIN C RECEPTOR; SYNDECAN 1; TERMINAL COMPLEMENT COMPLEX; THROMBIN ANTITHROMBIN COMPLEX; THROMBOMODULIN; TISSUE FACTOR PATHWAY INHIBITOR; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; ADRENALIN RELEASE; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD SAMPLING; CATECHOLAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; CELL DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FIBRINOLYSIS; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLYCOCALYX; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; NORADRENALIN RELEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN SECRETION; RISK FACTOR; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TISSUE INJURY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; EPINEPHRINE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOREPINEPHRINE; PLATELET COUNT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAUMA CENTERS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84861504708     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31823e9d15     Document Type: Article

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