Admission base deficit and lactate levels in Canadian patients with blunt trauma: Are they useful markers of mortality?

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1532-1535

  Ouellet, Jean Francois ^a   Roberts, Derek J ^a   Tiruta, Corina ^a   Kirkpatrick, Andrew W ^a   Mercado, Michelle ^a   Trottier, Vincent ^b   Dixon, Elijah ^a   Feliciano, David V ^c   Ball, Chad G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arterial blood gas; Base deficit; Blunt trauma; Canada; Lactate; Mortality

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PH; BLUNT TRAUMA; CANADA; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVOR; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ACID-BASE IMBALANCE; ADULT; AGED; ALBERTA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; COHORT STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LACTIC ACID; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRAUMA CENTERS; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 84864565936     PISSN: 21630755     EISSN: 21630763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e318256dd5a     Document Type: Article

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