Heart Rate: Is It Truly a Vital Sign?

[Charles Brault]

----- Original Message ----
From: "STEWART, Paul" <PStewart at ambulance.nsw.gov.au>
To: "Trauma & Critical Care mailing list" <trauma-list at trauma.org>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 2:18:03 PM
Subject: RE: Heart Rate: Is It Truly a Vital Sign?


Did someone really analyze 10,825 patients to get to this earth shattering decision that " Heart rate alone is not sufficient to determine the need for emergent interventions for hemorrhage"?  

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It would have been earth shattering if IT DID determine outcome or surgical needs
... and that nobody had paid to this small detail

I guess

Like episiotomies

Charles