Correcting the anion gap for hypoalbuminaemia does not improve detection of hyperlactataemia

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 627-629

  Dinh, C H ^a   Ng, R ^a   Grandinetti, A ^b   Joffe, A ^a   Chow, Dominic C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID; SERUM ALBUMIN;

ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANION GAP; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; HYPERLACTATEMIA; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; INJURY; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TISSUE OXYGENATION;

ACID-BASE EQUILIBRIUM; ACID-BASE IMBALANCE; AREA UNDER CURVE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; LACTATES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERUM ALBUMIN;

EID: 33748087785     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2005.031898     Document Type: Review

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