Role of lactate level in predicting admission need to intensive care unit and short term outcomes in patients with acute gastrointestinal bleeding
Hekmat Nashat Shawky,
Hala Mostafa Kamel,
Zain Elabdeen Ahmed Sayed
et al.
Abstract:Background
One of the most common emergencies seen in emergency departments is acute gastrointestinal bleeding (GIB). It’s associated with more disease burden and mortality.
Increased venous lactate levels are common in critically ill patients, and it has been used as a possible predictor of patients’ outcomes in many critical cases, but not much is known about its predictive role in patients with acute GIB.
With increasingly limited health care resources, there … Show more
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