lactic acid sepsis

Lactic Acid/Lactate in Sepsis & the Critically Ill: The Ultimate Guide

This post will be a compendium of all things and questions we ask ourselves regarding lactate/lactic acid in sepsis and other critically ill patients. We have become a culture where, as soon as a person hints at being sick, we check a stat lactate/lactic acid. If we understand our enemy, we won't be frightened by …

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Lactic Acid has a WIDE Differential Diagnosis (not just Sepsis)

There's a pendulum in medicine. Some things are over recognized and aggressively treated, some things are under appreciated (like subtle decreases in serum bicarb showing that the patient is becoming more acidotic and no one notices because the patient has obesity hypoventilation syndrome and their baseline bicarb is 34 and now has a bicarb of …

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