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Table 2 Literature on lactate as an outcome predictor in adult multiple trauma patients

From: Bench-to-bedside review: Oxygen debt and its metabolic correlates as quantifiers of the severity of hemorrhagic and post-traumatic shock

Author (year) [ref.]

Trauma patients

Outcome prediction

Oestern et al. (1978/1979) [93,94]

50

Survival

Brandl et al. (1989) [95]

51

Survival

Siegel et al. (1990) [29]

185

Survival

Woltmann and Kress (1991) [96]

35

Survival

Nast-Kolb et al. (1992) [97]

100

Survival

Waydhas et al. (1992) [98]

100

MOF, sepsis

Roumen et al. (1993) [99]

56

MOF, ARDS

Abramson et al. (1993) [61]

76

Survival

Sauaia et al. (1994) [100]

394

MOF

Dunham et al. (1994) [101]

17

MOF, ARDS

Scalea et al. (1994) [102]

30

Intracranial pressure

Manikis et al. (1995) [103]

129

MOF, survival

Ivatury et al. (1995) [104]

27

Survival

Regel et al. (1996) [105]

342

MOF

Mikulaschek et al. (1996) [64]

52

Survival

Charpentier et al. (1997) [106]

20

Survival

Nast-Kolb et al. (1997) [107]

66

MOF

Cairns et al. (1997) [85]

24

MOF

Sauaia et al. (1998) [108]

411

MOF

Blow et al. (1999) [109]

116

MOF, survival

Claridge et al. (2000) [110]

364

Infection, survival

Crowl et al. (2000) [111]

77

'Postoperative complications'

Rixen et al. (2000) [77]

80

ARDS

Ertel et al. (2001) [112]

20

Severity of hemorrhage, survival

Cerovic et al. (2003) [113]

98

Injury severity, survival

Egger et al. (2004) [114]

26

Injury severity

  1. ARDS, acute respiratory distress syndrome; MOF, multiple organ failure.