%0 Journal Article
%T Association between increased blood interleukin-6 levels on emergency department arrival and prolonged length of intensive care unit stay for blunt trauma
%A Koichiro Shinozaki
%A Masashi Taniguchi
%A Taka-aki Nakada
%A Tetsuya Matsuoka
%A Yasuaki Mizushima
%J Archive of "World Journal of Emergency Surgery : WJES".
%D 2016
%R 10.1186/s13017-016-0063-8
%X Systemic immune response to injury plays a key role in the pathophysiological mechanism of blunt trauma. We tested the hypothesis that increased blood interleukin-6 (IL-6) levels of blunt trauma patients on emergency department (ED) arrival are associated with poor clinical outcomes, and investigated the utility of rapid measurement of the blood IL-6 level
%K Blunt trauma
%K Interleukin-6
%K Abbreviated Injury Scale
%K Injury Severity Score
%K Trauma and Injury Severity Score
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4727350/