Base Deficit Stratifies Mortality and Determines Therapy

Rutherford, Edmund J.; Morris, John A.; Reed, George W.; Hall, Kathleen

doi:10.1097/00005373-199209000-00014

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“…Guzzo et al demonstrated that their model had a sensitivity of 45% and a specificity of 96%, using the variables GCS, base excess, need for transfusion, ISS and age [11]. Other research teams demonstrated that negative base excess clearly reflects injury severity and predict mortality [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21].…”

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Predictors of Death in Trauma Patients who are Alive on Arrival at Hospital

Lichtveld¹,

Panhuizen

Smit³

et al. 2007

Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg

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Objective: To determine which factors predict death occurring in trauma patients who are alive on arrival at hospital Design Prospective cohort study Method Data were collected from 507 trauma patients with multiple injuries, with a Hospital Trauma Index-Injury Severity Score of 16 or more, who were initially delivered by the Emergency Medical Services to the Emergency Department of the University Medical Centre Utrecht (UMCU) during the period 1999-2000. Results: Univariate analysis showed that every year of age increase resulted in a 2% greater risk of death. If the patient had been intubated at the scene of the accident, this risk was increased 4.3-fold. Every point of increase in the Triage Revised Trauma Score (T-RTS) reduced the risk of death by 30%. A similar (but inverse) tendency was found for the HTI-ISS score, with every point of increase resulting in a 5% greater risk of death. There was a clear relationship between the base excess (BE) and hemoglobin (Hb) levels and the risk of death, the latter being increased by 8% for each mmol/l drop in BE, and reduced by 22% for each mmol/l increase in Hb. The risk of death occurring was 2.6 times higher in cases with isolated neurotrauma. These associations hardly changed in the multivariate analysis; only the relation with having been intubated at the scene disappeared. Conclusion: The risk of severely injured accident patients dying after arriving in hospital is mainly determined by the T-RTS, age, presence of isolated neurological damage, BE and Hb level. Skull/brain damage and hemorrhage appear to be the most important causes of death in the first 24 h after the accident. The time interval between the accident and arrival at the hospital does not appear to affect the risk of death.

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Predictors of Death in Trauma Patients who are Alive on Arrival at Hospital

Lichtveld¹,

Panhuizen

Smit³

et al. 2007

Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg

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“…The most extensively studied is base deficit. It has been shown in animal and clinical studies of hemorrhagic shock that the severity of metabolic acidosis determined by this method correlates with a higher probability of death [67][68][69], as well as with a higher risk of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome [43,48]. The velocity of normalization of the base deficit has not been related with the prognosis.…”

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Critical Care Issues in the Early Management of Severe Trauma

García

2006

Surgical Clinics of North America

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Violent trauma and road traffic injuries kill more than 2.5 million people in the world every year. It has been calculated by the World Health Organization that in 2002 there occurred 1.6 million violent deaths [1] and 1.2 million deaths from traffic injury [2], for a combined mortality of 48 deaths per 100,000 population per year.Most trauma deaths occur at the scene or in the first hour after trauma, with a proportion from 34% to 50% occurring in hospitals [3]. These deaths could be prevented by optimization of trauma care. Preventability of trauma deaths has been reported as high as 76% [4] and as low as 1% in mature trauma systems [5,6].Prehospitalization procedures, elapsed time to hospital arrival are, of course, vital to the whole trauma scenario, but errors made in the in-hospital phase of care are responsible for one third to two thirds of the reported by different authors [7,8]. Of these, intensive care unit (ICU) errors are among the most frequent and significant. Errors in the ICU management of trauma patients were studied by Duke and colleagues [9]. They reported 165 ICU trauma deaths. Two hundred fifty-eight errors occurred in 81 patients (52%), and 134 of them contributed to death in 52 patients (34%). ICU errors were classified as management errors (82%), diagnostic (9%), technique (5%), and system inadequacies (4%). Davis and colleagues [10] identified critical care errors in 30% of 125 trauma deaths with errors. These errors contributed to 48% of all preventable deaths.The most common critical care errors are related to airway and respiratory management, fluid resuscitation, neurotrauma diagnosis and support, and delayed diagnosis of critical lesions [9,10].It is imperative for the general surgeon who takes care of trauma patients to know how to deal with these critical aspects, to reduce preventable morbidity and mortality. In the next segment, the situations in which the participation of the surgeon is crucial, during the initial phases of reanimation and stabilization of the critically traumatized patient will be discussed. Airway and ventilation managementAirway and respiratory management errors are the most common of those identified by several authors [9][10][11] The cardinal manifestation is a sudden or a rapidly progressing desaturation, frequently accompanied by tachycardia and arrhytmias, and occasionally by agitation. Hypertension announces the cardiovascular collapse, and bradicardia appears immediately after the total collapse [12]. The symptoms should not be attributed to agitation when it is present, and other possible causes must be ruled out before. Diagnosing the complication involves a directed physical examination, the analysis of the airway pressures and ventilator volumes, chest radiographs, and sometimes the measurement of arterial blood gases (ABG), and the urinary bladder pressure ( Table 1).The emergency conditions in which the access to the airways must be gained, the displacement to diagnosis areas or operating room and the agitation, often present, make the critical...

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“…[5] Moreover, base deficit is considered a reliable physiologic parameter that relates to actual tissue perfusion in hypovolemic shock and indicates resuscitation requirements in critically injured patients. [6,7] Therefore, this study was conducted to compare between alterations in easy and rapid predictors as glucose level, base deficit and lactate and difficult and slow predictors as TRISS and APACHE IV. So, it could be considered an early and easy rapid predictor of mortality.…”

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