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By Paudge Gibson • Doing my best one day at a time
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Maria Schollin-Borg, Pär Nordin, Henrik Zetterström, Joakim Johansson
Lactate has been thoroughly studied and found useful for stratification of patients with sepsis, in the Intensive Care Unit, and trauma care. However, little is known about lactate as a risk-stratification marker in the Medical Emergency Team- (MET-) call setting. We aimed to determine whether the arterial blood lactate level at the time of a MET-call is associated with increased 30-day mortality. This is an observational study on a prospectively gathered cohort at a regional secondary referral hospital. All MET-calls during the two-year study period were eligible...
2016: Critical Care Research and Practice
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