Mortality benefit of shock index in prehospital level care: Our reply to Jouffroy R et al.

We are really thankful to Jouffroy R et al. for re-evaluating impact of shock index (SI) guided management of septic shock in pre-hospital setting, the good age old yet simple tool, to assess the mortality outcome in at 28  days [1]. Higher score of SI is known to predict worse outcome [2], which this study also re-established. While we accept the fundamental conclusion that higher SI is associated with increased mortality in sepsis patients in pre-hospital setups; we feel that the result needs introspection and furt her validation.
Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Source Type: research