Open AccessHypothermia as a predictor for mortality in trauma patients at admittance to the intensive care unit
Author(s) -
Kirsten Balvers,
Marjolein Van der Horst,
Maarten Graumans,
Christa Boer,
Jan M. Binnekade,
J. C. Goslings,
Nicole P. Juffermans
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of emergencies, trauma and shock
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.313
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 0974-519X
pISSN - 0974-2700
DOI - 10.4103/0974-2700.185276
Subject(s) - medicine , hypothermia , intensive care unit , traumatic brain injury , logistic regression , injury severity score , anesthesia , glasgow coma scale , retrospective cohort study , emergency medicine , degree celsius , poison control , injury prevention , physics , psychiatry , thermodynamics
To study the impact of hypothermia upon admission to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) on early and late mortality and to develop a prediction model for late mortality in severely injured trauma patients.