Prospective, Randomized Trial of Survivor Values of Cardiac Index, Oxygen Delivery, and Oxygen Consumption as Resuscitation Endpoints in Severe Trauma

The objective was to test prospectively supranormal values of cardiac index (CI), oxygen delivery index (Dosub 2 I), and oxygen consumption index (Vosub 2 I) as resuscitation goals to improve outcome in severely traumatized patients. We included patients greater than or equal to16 years of age who h