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Endpoints of Resuscitation

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There are many methods for measuring the adequacy of resuscitation in a patient in shock, but none is universally applicable and few appear to be without significant limitations. As in so many areas of medicine, the constellation of findings from multiple modalities and the patient’s trajectory must be interpreted and acted upon, occasionally with imperfect data. Further, given the disparate settings and situations in which resuscitations are performed, the methods of guiding resuscitation must be tailored to local capabilities. While under-resuscitation often has grave consequences, over-resuscitation also leads to worse outcomes. In this chapter, we attempt to present a concise review of available endpoints of resuscitation and caveats to their use, as well as the limitations to available modalities.

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  1. Division of Acute Care Surgery, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA

    Benjamin L. Davis

  2. Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, and Acute Care Surgery, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA

    Martin A. Schreiber

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  3. Division of Trauma Surgery, Rm C5L100, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

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  4. Trauma and Emergency Surgery Service, Legacy Emanuel Medical Center, Portland, Oregon, USA

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Davis, B.L., Schreiber, M.A. (2018). Endpoints of Resuscitation. In: Salim, A., Brown, C., Inaba, K., Martin, M. (eds) Surgical Critical Care Therapy . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71712-8_12

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