[Modern approaches to volemic compensation in children with severe thermal injury during acute period].

To determine the minimally allowable levels of oxygen delivery and consumption in infants with acute severe thermal injury, the authors studied the oxygen transport system in 36 patients aged 1 year and 2 months to 3 years who had burns of more than 15%, but less than 50% of the body surface in February 2001 to January 2004. The findings indicate that in infants, the acute period of thermal injury is characterized by oxygen debts despite the hyperdynamic circulatory regimen. By calculating the coefficients of paired correlation and deriving the linear regression of oxygen uptake with other parameters of the oxygen transport system, the authors estimated the minimum allowable levels of performance of the oxygen transport system: less than 623.2 ml/min/m2 for oxygen delivery, more than 190.0 ml/min/m2 for oxygen consumption with the cardiac index of greater than 4.31 l/min/m2.