%0 Journal Article
%T Cumulative lactate and hospital mortality in ICU patients
%A Paul A van Beest
%A Lukas Brander
%A Sebastiaan PA Jansen
%A Johannes H Rommes
%A Micha l A Kuiper
%A and Peter E Spronk
%J Annals of Intensive Care
%D 2013
%I Springer
%R 10.1186/2110-5820-3-6
%X Hyperlactatemia is associated with in-hospital mortality in a heterogeneous ICU population. In our patients, lactate peak values predicted in-hospital mortality equally well as lactate-time-integral of arterial blood lactate levels above the upper normal threshold.
%K Lactate
%K Critically ill
%K Intensive care units
%K In-hospital mortality
%U http://www.annalsofintensivecare.com/content/3/1/6/abstract