Title: Use of shock index in trauma patients<br/>Author: Robert Flint<br/><a href='http://umem.org/profiles/faculty/2561/'>[Click to email author]</a><hr/><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"> <span id="docs-internal-guid-72d0c45e-7fff-390c-001f-75203ab734e4"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The use of the shock index (systolic blood pressure/heart rate) value under 0.9 has been shown to be effective in predicting the need for mass blood transfusion as well as mortality for trauma patients age 16-64. Using age times shock index has been shown to be an effective marker of mortality and the need for transfer/transport to a trauma center in those over age 65. The change in shock index over time is also useful for pre-hospital providers deciding the appropriate destination for traumatically injured individuals. </span></span></p> <div> </div> <fieldset><legend>References</legend>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <span id="docs-internal-guid-c56b5b3d-7fff-44e5-ac33-8beff6cae44a"><span background-color:="" color:="" font-variant-east-asian:="" font-variant-numeric:="" new="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: " times="" vertical-align:="" white-space:="">Pandit, Viraj MD et al. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shock index predicts mortality in geriatric trauma patients An analysis of the National Trauma Data Bank </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(59, 48, 48); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery: </span><a href="https://journals.lww.com/jtrauma/toc/2014/04000" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 58, 104); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">April 2014 - Volume 76 - Issue 4 - p 1111-1115</span></a></span></p> <div> </div> <div> <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorRaw=King%2C+Randall+W" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Randall W. King MD</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> et al. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(139, 139, 139); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(28, 29, 30); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shock Index as a Marker for Significant Injury in Trauma Patients Academic Emergency Medicine</span><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15532712/1996/3/11" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Volume 3, Issue</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 11</span></a><span background-color:="" color:="" font-variant-east-asian:="" font-variant-numeric:="" font-weight:="" new="" style="font-size: 12pt;" times="" vertical-align:="" white-space:=""> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">November 1996 Pages</span><span background-color:="" color:="" font-variant-east-asian:="" font-variant-numeric:="" new="" style="font-size: 12pt;" times="" vertical-align:="" white-space:=""> 1041-1045</span></div> <div> <div> </div> </div> <p> </p> </fieldset>