Cumulative lactate and hospital mortality in ICU patients

Autor: Michael A. Kuiper, Lukas Brander, Peter E. Spronk, Sebastiaan P. A. Jansen, Johannes H. Rommes, Paul A. van Beest
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Annals of Intensive Care
Annals of Intensive Care, 3:6. SpringerOpen
ISSN: 2110-5820
DOI: 10.1186/2110-5820-3-6
Popis: Background: Both hyperlactatemia and persistence of hyperlactatemia have been associated with bad outcome. We compared lactate and lactate-derived variables in outcome prediction.Methods: Retrospective observational study. Case records from 2,251 consecutive intensive care unit (ICU) patients admitted between 2001 and 2007 were analyzed. Baseline characteristics, all lactate measurements, and in-hospital mortality were recorded. The time integral of arterial blood lactate levels above the upper normal threshold of 2.2 mmol/L (lactate-time-integral), maximum lactate (max-lactate), and time-to-first-normalization were calculated. Survivors and nonsurvivors were compared and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis were applied.Results: A total of 20,755 lactate measurements were analyzed. Data are srpehown as median [interquartile range]. In nonsurvivors (n = 405) lactate-time-integral (192 [0-1881] min.mmol/L) and time-to-first normalization (44.0 [0-427] min) were higher than in hospital survivors (n = 1846; 0 [0-134] min.mmol/L and 0 [0-75] min, respectively; all p 6 hours (mortality 16.6% vs. 24.4%; p 0.05). The area under the ROC curves for admission lactate and lactate-time-integral was not different (p = 0.36).Conclusions: 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.
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