NON-SHOCK SEPTIC SUBJECT: ANALYSING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MORTALITY AND RESULTANT SEPTIC SHOCK

Abstract

Background: Since blood lactate can result in tissue hypoxia and hypoperfusion and has been related
to mortality, blood lactate levels should be closely monitored in all patients with septic shock and
severe sepsis.
Objective: In non-shock septic people, the current study aimed to explore the association between
early blood lactate levels and death and eventual septic shock.
Methods: Initial serum lactate levels in the emergency ward and 224 sepsis patients admitted to a noncritical department were assessed in this retrospective analysis. The experiment was not open to
subjects with hyperlactatemia of any other aetiology.
Results: Pneumonia was the most common cause of sepsis, a