Lactate, lactate clearance and outcome after cardiac arrest: A post-hoc analysis of the TTM-Trial.
Joachim Pascal DüringJ DankiewiczT CronbergC HassagerJ HovdenesJ KjaergaardM KuiperN NielsenT PellisP StammetJ VultoM WanscherM WiseA ÅnemanH FribergPublished in: Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica (2018)
Admission lactate and 12-hour lactate values were independently associated with 30-day mortality after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest while 12-hour lactate clearance was not. The clinical value of lactate as the sole predictor of outcome after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is, however, limited.