Elevated Arterial Base Deficit in Trauma Patients: A Marker of Impaired Oxygen Utilization

Intracorporeal Use of the Hemostatic Agent QuickClot in a Coagulopathic Patient with Combined Thoracoabdominal Penetrating Trauma

“…Uncorrected, this derangement may lead to significantly increased rates of multiple organ failure (35%) and mortality (50%). 6 Likewise, hypothermia serves as a significant risk factor both for overall mortality and for coagulopathic changes. Hypothermia can also represent the extent of shock the patient is in.…”

MEDEVAC: Survival and Physiological Parameters Improved With Higher Level of Flight Medic Training

“…A BD −4 could be clinically significant. Kincaid et al 29 noted that patients who maintained a BD −4 had an increase in mortality and lower oxygen consumption at 48 hours. Smith et al 30 noted that patients with a BD −4 and lactate 1.5 on admission to the ICU had a sensitivity of 80.3% and a specificity of 58.7% for mortality.…”

A Pilot Study on Early Versus Delayed Hypertonic Saline Dextran Resuscitation in a Porcine Model of Near-Lethal Liver Injury: Early Hemodynamic Response and Short-Term Survival

“…Parameters such as BD and arterial pH were used to characterize impaired oxygen utilization, aerobic respiration, and oxygen debt, providing a comprehensible assessment of the microcirculation during the hypotensive state and resuscitation [29]. Blood lactate levels and oxygen consumption were not determined because some publications have indicated that BD alone is an ample indicator to characterize the adequacy of resuscitation [30].…”