Systematic searches identified 1 461 study abstracts which were evaluated against the inclusion/exclusion criteria for relevance. A total of 65 studies were potentially relevant and full texts were...
This study was designed to examine the feasibility, and potential impacts, of introducing POC lactate measurement into pre-hospital care within NEAS. The primary objective was to evaluate the Nova...
Sepsis is a life-threatening condition with estimates of up to 37 000 deaths annually in the UK alone. When sepsis is not treated the mortality rate increases by 8% every hour (Cronshaw et al, 2011)....
In patients presenting with sepsis, severe sepsis and septic shock, could lactate testing assist with pre-hospital identification?.
Lactate was frst described in the late 18th century by KW Scheele, a Swedish chemist. Lactate can be produced in all bodily tissue but is mainly produced by the skeletal muscles, skin, red blood...
Sepsis occurs when a simple infection develops to cause an overwhelming, inappropriate infammatory response. The causative pathogen is identifed by the host's innate (non-specifc) immune system, which...
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