This study confirmed the relationship between blood lactate levels and injury severity as well as the prognostic value of blood lactate level for survival of severely injured patients.
Our results indicate that for patients with multiple injuries maintaining normal SvO2 values and increasing DO2 only if required are more relevant for survival than routine maintenance of above-normal oxygen transport values.
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