The Prognostic Value of Lactate in Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Patients With Cardiac Arrest and Shock

Lactate is a prognostic marker in critically ill patients, although currently available illness severity scores do not include lactate as a predictive parameter. We sought to describe the association between lactate and hospital mortality in patients admitted to the cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) with cardiac arrest (CA) and shock.Retrospective observational analysis of Mayo Clinic CICU patients admitted from 2007 to 2018 with measured...