Scott et al., in this article written in English, evaluated a 2-hour lactate clearance as a prognostic marker in acute cardiorespiratory insufficiency. The estudy was carried out at an Emergency Department and a High Dependency Unit, and the logistic regression and ROC curves found that a 2-hour lactate clearance <15% was a strong predictor of negative outcome.

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