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Point of care serum lactate levels as a prognostic marker of outcome in complex pediatric cardiac surgery patients: Can we utilize it?

BACKGROUND: Post-operative course after complex pediatric cardiac surgery is unpredictable. Although, change in arterial lactate levels has been used as a surrogate marker for many years, scientific evidence correlating the early perioperative lactate levels with outcome is still lacking. OBJECTIVE:...

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Autores principales: Agrawal, Amit, Agrawal, Naresh, Das, Jyotirmay, Varma, Amit
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3610450/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23559725
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.106500