Severe hyperlactatemia in the emergency department: clinical characteristics, etiology and mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Severe hyperlactatemia (lactate level ≥ 10 mmol/L) is associated with high mortality rates in critically ill patients. However, there is limited data on emergency department (ED) patients. We aimed to investigate the clinical characteristics, etiology and outcomes of patients with severe hyperlactatemia in the ED setting.

Methods

A retrospective cohort study was conducted at a tertiary care hospital in Thailand. We included adult patients with a venous lactate sample taken in the ED within one hour. We excluded patients after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, transferred to/from another hospital or those with missing clinical data. Mortality rates were evaluated among patients with increasing degrees of lactate elevation and among patients with severe hyperlactatemi

SUBMITTER: Tangpaisarn T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11337793 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature