Brief report: Serial capillary lactate measurement predict the evolution of early sepsis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

In intensive care settings, blood lactate level measurement proved to be an excellent predictor of outcomes. In patients requiring less urgent treatment, the arterial blood lactate is less sensitive and its usefulness remains to be proven. Capillary blood lactate dosing, an emergent point-of-care technique readily available should be more sensitive to changes in these settings.

Method

prospective, observational, monocentric study conducted in a polyvalent internal medicine ward in a French University Hospital. The inclusion criteria were the existence of new symptoms of abrupt onset in an otherwise stable patient. All the patients had a point of care measurement of baseline capillary and venous lactate levels (EDGE, ApexBio) and standardized control before any ther

SUBMITTER: Purcarea A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5152613 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature