Early lactate elevations following resuscitation from pediatric cardiac arrest are associated with increased mortality*.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe the association of lactate levels within the first 12 hours after successful resuscitation from pediatric cardiopulmonary arrest with hospital mortality.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

Fifteen children's hospital associated with the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network.

Patients

Patients between 1 day and 18 years old who had a cardiopulmonary arrest, received chest compressions more than 1 minute, had a return of spontaneous circulation more than 20 minutes, and had lactate measurements within 6 hours of arrest.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

Two hundred sixty-four patients had a lactate sampled between 0 and 6 hours (lactate(0-6)) and were evaluable. Of those, 153 patients had a l

SUBMITTER: Topjian AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4092112 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature