Hormonally Active Women Tolerate Shock-Trauma Better Than Do Men: A Prospective Study of Over 4000 Trauma Patients

摘要

A prospective clinical series of 4106 patients was carried out testing the hypothesis that women would manifest a better preserved initial hemodynamic response and tissue perfusion after trauma than do men. Based on lactate levels and transfusion requirements, this hypothesis was validated in premenopausal women although the magnitude of injury was greater in women than in men.