Increased blood lacate levels: an important warning signal in surgical practice
January 2004
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Both in emergency and elective surgical patients increased blood lactate levels warn the physician that the patient is at risk of increased morbidity and decreased changes of survival. Prompt therapeutic measures to restore the balance between oxygen demand and supply are warranted in these patients.
Keywords
- Humans
- Biological Markers/blood
- Prognosis
- Anoxia/*blood/complications
- Critical Illness
- Lactates/*blood
- Multiple Organ Failure/*blood/mortality
- Postoperative Complications/diagnosis/*mortality
- Shock, Septic/*blood/mortality
Automatically Extracted Terms
- blood lactate levels
- patient
- lactate
- level
- blood
- oxygen
- lactate levels
- oxygen delivery
- tissue hypoxia
- occult hypoperfusion
- delivery
- 24 hours
- trauma
- tissue
- output
- hypoxia
- occult
- mortality
- increase
- hypoperfusion
