CEC - SEPSIS KILLS Program - Lactate: how sick is your patient? (Jan 2015)

Measuring a serum lactate is crucial in the early recognition and ongoing management of a patient with suspected sepsis. This video defines normal and abnormal lactate levels and provides an overview of the management of a raised serum lactate in patients with sepsis- one of the leading causes of death in hospitals worldwide.

[@onebaddayaway]

Really useful video. Many thanks!

[@noelenewilliams7209]

I struggled to focus on words with the drawing not seeming to match up. :-(

[@SoDaPoPzWaZ]

Love it

[@davidmbeckmann]

Not necessarily. Thiamine deficiency, Warburg effect, excess Beta agonists, medications, liver disease, etc, raise lactate. You see alot of nonseptic lactates these days are these braniacs are ordering lactates on everything that farts.

[@jibbyjabs]

Correct. It's common in metabolic patients too. I need to be on a dextrose IV during surgery due to my metabolic disorder, and I had one doctor who didn't understand why the dextrose IV increasing caused an increase in lactate. In other words the biochemist didn't understand basic glycolysis

[@hijadedios4757]

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