Lactate Monitoring in the ICU
- 22/05/2015
The use of lactate measurements in critically ill patients has steadily increased to a level where in some cases it may be considered lactate monitoring. In this brief review we discuss the central metabolic role of lactate in animal metabolism, and address important misconceptions as well as why lactate is mainly a marker of stress and how this translates into its unique diagnostic utility in many...
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