Is lactate the "holy Grail" of biomarkers for sepsis prognosis?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1812-1813

  Jones, Alan E ^a   Puskarich, Michael A ^a  

^a CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Lactate; Organ dysfunction; Sepsis; Shock

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID;

ANAEROBIC GLYCOLYSIS; CELL HYPOXIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESUSCITATION; SEPTIC SHOCK; TISSUE OXYGENATION;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LACTATES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 67650508009     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181a09487     Document Type: Editorial

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