Point-of-care testing on admission to the intensive care unit: Lactate and glucose independently predict mortality

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 405-412

  Martin, Jan ^a   Blobner, Manfred ^a   Busch, Raymonde ^a   Moser, Norman ^b   Kochs, Eberhard ^a   Luppa, Peter B ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

acid base status; blood gas analysis; critical illness; glucose; lactate; point of care testing

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE; GLUCOSE; LACTIC ACID;

ACID BASE BALANCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANION GAP ACIDOSIS; ARTERIAL BLOOD; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; FEMALE; GAS ANALYSIS EQUIPMENT; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERCHLOREMIC ACIDOSIS; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; METABOLIC ALKALOSIS; MORTALITY; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ACIDOSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LACTIC ACID; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875427740     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2012-0258     Document Type: Review

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