Lactate Is a Better Predictor than Systolic Blood Pressure for Determining Blood Requirement and Mortality: Could Prehospital Measures Improve Trauma Triage?
Keywords: AUC, area under receiver operator curve; BL, blood lactate; ED, emergency department; PH, prehospital; POCT, point-of-care blood testing; PRBC, packed red blood cells; RR, risk ratios; SBP, systolic blood pressure; UAB, University of Alabama at Birmingham