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Lactate: biomarker and potential therapeutic target
Okorie Nduka Okorie1, Phil Dellinger
1Florida State University School of Medicine, Orlando, FL, USA. Okorie.Okorie@orlandohealth.com
Critical Care Clinics
|March 29, 2011
Abstract:
Lactate levels are frequently elevated in critically ill patients and correlate well with disease severity. Elevated lactate levels are prognostic in prehospital, emergency department, and intensive care unit settings. This review discusses the role of lactate as a biomarker in diagnosing and assessing the severity of systemic hypoperfusion, as well as the role of serum lactate measurements in guiding clinical care and enabling prognosis in critically ill patients.
