• Am J Emerg Med · May 2018

    Clinical value of triage lactate in risk stratifying trauma patients using interval likelihood ratios.

    • Bonny J Baron, Andrew Nguyen, Dimitre Stefanov, Amit Shetty, and Shahriar Zehtabchi.
    • Department of Emergency Medicine, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center and Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
    • Am J Emerg Med. 2018 May 1; 36 (5): 784-788.

    AbstractEmergency physicians face the challenge of rapidly identifying high-risk trauma patients. Lactate (LAC) is widely used as a surrogate of tissue hypoperfusion. However, clinically important values for LAC as a predictor of mortality are not well defined.Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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