Occurrence and adverse effect on outcome of hyperlactatemia in the critically ill
Open Access
- 1 January 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Critical Care
- Vol. 13 (3), R90
- https://doi.org/10.1186/cc7918
Abstract
Hyperlactatemia is frequent in critically ill patients and is often used as a marker of adverse outcome. However, studies to date have focused on selected intensive care unit (ICU) populations. We sought to determine the occurrence and relation of hyperlactatemia with ICU mortality in all patients admitted to four ICUs in a large regional critical care system.This publication has 27 references indexed in Scilit:
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