ReviewJournal of pediatric intensive care2022
Serum Lactate and Mortality during Pediatric Admissions: Is 2 Really the Magic Number?
Review in Journal of pediatric intensive care, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Phase III trial of sodium dichloroacetate for pyruvate dehydrogenase complex deficiency in children.JCI insight · 2026Trial
- Can Serum Lactate on Admission to Intensive Care Predict Length of Stay? A Retrospective Analysis of Critically Ill Paediatric Oncology Patients.Journal of paediatrics and child health · 2025Observational
- Lactate, an Essential Metabolic Marker in the Diagnosis and Management of Pediatric Conditions.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Predictive value of initial lactate levels for mortality and morbidity in critically ill pediatric trauma patients: a retrospective study from a Turkish pediatric intensive care unit.Acute and critical care · 2025Article
- Predicting Survival Outcomes in Post-Cardiac Arrest Syndrome: The Impact of Combined Sequential Organ Failure Assessment Score and Serum Lactate Measurement.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2023Article
- Clinical parameters to predict adverse outcomes in patients with shunt-dependent physiology with a Blalock-Taussig-Thomas shunt.Annals of pediatric cardiologyArticle
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Abstract
The primary objective of this study was to determine if serum lactate level at the time of hospital admission can predict mortality in pediatric patients. A systematic review was conducted to identify studies that assessed the utility of serum lactate at the time of admission to predict mortality in pediatric patients. The areas under the curve from the receiver operator curve analyses were utilized to determine the pooled area under the curve. Additionally, standardized mean difference was compared between those who survived to discharge and those who did not. A total of 12 studies with 2,099 patients were included. Out of these, 357 (17%) experienced mortality. The pooled area under the curve for all patients was 0.74 (0.67-0.80,
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