Prolonged resuscitation of metabolic acidosis after trauma is associated with more complications

Table 1 Multiple regression results, independent predictors of time to EAC resuscitation

Independent variable	Standardized beta^a	Significance
Age	0.030	0.596
African-American race	0.070	0.511
Gender	−0.005	0.935
Injury Severity Score (ISS)	−0.005	0.935
American Society of Anesthesiologists score (ASA)	−0.039	0.578
Body mass index (BMI)	0.018	0.753
Transfer from outside hospital (OSH)	0.112	0.045†
Number of fractures	−0.111	0.296
Presence of a femur fracture	−0.036	0.735
Presence of an acetabular fracture	0.029	0.736
Presence of a pelvic ring fracture	0.075	0.403
Presence of a cervical spine fracture	0.096	0.089
Presence of a thoracolumbar spine fracture	0.065	0.712

†p < 0.05
^aA positive value for race suggests that African-Americans took longer to receive resuscitation. A positive value for gender suggests that females took longer to receive resuscitation. A positive value for transfer from outside hospital indicates that outside transfer took longer to receive resuscitation

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