Severe Intra- and Post-Operative Lactic Acidosis in a Patient Who Underwent Robotic Thoracoscopic Surgery

Alexander Smirnov1, Michael Semionov1, Shlomo Yaron Ishay2

  • 1Department of Anesthesiology, Soroka University Medical Center, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 8410101, Israel.

Biomedicines
|March 28, 2025
PubMed
Summary

Severe intraoperative lactic acidosis during thoracoscopic surgery can be rare but serious. Thiamine administration successfully lowered lactate levels, suggesting thiamine deficiency as a potential contributing factor in this case.