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Table 3 Literature on base excess/base deficit 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

Davis et al. (1988) [41]

209

Blood pressure, severity of volume deficit

Siegel et al. (1990) [29]

508

Survival

Sauaia et al. (1994) [100]

394

MOF

Regel et al. (1996) [105]

342

MOF

Botha et al. (1997) [48]

17

Neutrophil CD11b expression

Davis et al. (1998) [115]

674

Survival

Krishna et al. (1998) [116]

40

Survival

Fosse et al. (1998) [117]

108

Complement activation

Brown et al. (1999) [118]

12

PMN chemiluminescence

Eberhard et al. (2000) [119]

102

Acute lung injury

Rixen et al. (2000) [77]

80

ARDS

Rixen et al. (2001) [49]

2069

Hemodynamic, transfusion requirements, metabolism, coagulation, survival

Harbrecht et al. (2001) [120]

1962

Hepatic dysfunction

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