EMCrit Wee – Is Lactate Clearance a Flawed Paradigm? - a podcast by Scott D. Weingart, MD FCCM

A listener, Øyvind S Holen, and the PrecordialThumper both alerted me to an article recently published by Paul Marik and Rinaldo Bellomo:

Lactate clearance as a target of therapy in sepsis: a flawed paradigm



In the paper, they discuss many of the misunderstandings re: lactate and lactate clearance. This wee is my response. I'd love to hear your opinions.

Update

New article on the Kinetics of Lactate Clearance

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