Association of Serum Biomarkers with the Mortality of Trauma Victims in a Level -1 Trauma Care Centre of Eastern India

Abstract

Objective: To determine correlation of important biochemical laboratory investigations in different trauma patients and their degree of injury severity and overall mortality association. Methods: In this hospital based retrospective observational study, 238 trauma patients were divided into two groups. Group I with injury severity score (ISS)16. Haemoglobin (Hb), international normalized ratio, serum creatinine, blood urea nitogen (BUN), serum electrolyte, serum uric acid and liver function parameters were recorded and statistically analyzed. Results: Group II had statistically significant (p 16). Conclusion: The study establishes the absolute need of doing three laboratory parameters (serum creatinine, serum blood urea nitrogen and serum potassium) instead of doing laboratory tests battery at the time of trauma victims admission and predicting survival among injured patients in trauma population from Indian settings.

Keywords

• biochemical parameters
• injury severity score (iss)
• mortality
• trauma