Correlação entre a concentração de lactato plasmático e a mortalidade neonatal precoce

Abstract

Objective: To assess the correlation between plasma lactate concentrations in the first 6 hours of life and early neonatal mortality. Methods: The patients were divided in 2 groups based on the cutoff point, obtained from a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve, of the plasma lactate concentration that best predicted neonatal mortality during the first 3 days of life. The differences between groups and the correlations between the investigated variables and the plasma lactate concentrations measured in…