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Base deficit as a guide to injury severity and volume resuscitation
M C Chang1, E J Rutherford, J A Morris
1Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville.
Journal of the Tennessee Medical Association
|February 1, 1993
Abstract:
Base deficit is an expeditious and sensitive measure of both the degree and duration of inadequate perfusion, and has utility in the clinical evaluation and management of victims of trauma. It is rapid, accurate, and widely available, and as such may be very useful in the initial evaluation of these patients; it may also be used to help guide and assess the adequacy of volume resuscitation. It has in addition both clinical value and research potential in predicting outcome in these patients, and may be a useful tool to both the clinician and the researcher.