Prognostic value of incremental lactate elevations in emergency department patients with suspected infection

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 983-985

  Puskarich, Michael A ^a,b   Kline, Jeffrey A ^b   Summers, Richard L ^a   Jones, Alan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY PATIENT; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; INFECTION; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFECTION; LACTIC ACID; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84865356555     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2012.01404.x     Document Type: Article

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