The value of getting the arterial is for those patients who are having an ABG, would not need to be stuck again for a venous lactic acid.
*Terri Savino MSN, RN, CPHQ* *Core Measure Specialist* *Quality Improvement Coordinator* *Trauma Coordinator* Middlesex Hospital 28 Crescent St Middletown, CT 06457 office: 860-358-3026 fax: 860-358-4088 www.middlesexhospital.org This e-mail message may be protected by the attorney client privilege and the work product doctrines. This e-mail may also be protected by section 19a-17b of the CT General Statutes. On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 7:10 AM, Kramer, George C. <[email protected]> wrote: > Terri, > > do you have a data base of paired samples. I would have expected the > differences to be less than 0.2 from arterial to venous. and therefore > limited value in doing both. > > g > > > On Nov 17, 2014, at 2:31 PM, Savino, Terri <[email protected]> > wrote: > > We do both arterial lactic acid and venous lactic acid - our "Normal > values" for each are: > > Arterial 0.5 -1.6 > > Venous 0.5 - 2.2 > > > Do others use both arterial and venous lactic acid? If you have a high > arterial lactic acid between 1.6 and 2.0 the surviving sepsis campaign data > base seems to only want lactic acid >2 to have a repeat lactic acid. > > > Terri > > *Terri Savino MSN, RN, CPHQ* > *Core Measure Specialist* > *Quality Improvement Coordinator* > *Trauma Coordinator* > > Middlesex Hospital > 28 Crescent St > Middletown, CT 06457 > office: 860-358-3026 > fax: 860-358-4088 > www.middlesexhospital.org > > > > > > > This e-mail message may be protected by the attorney client privilege > and the work product doctrines. This e-mail may also be protected by > section 19a-17b of the CT General Statutes. > > > If you have received this message in error, please notify Middlesex Health > System by sending a reply email to the sender or calling the Middlesex > Hospital Privacy Office Hotline at 860-358-4630 and then delete this > email and all attachments. > > The information contained in this email and any attached files from > Middlesex Health System are confidential under federal and state law and > are intended only for the person to whom they are addressed. If you are > not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any inappropriate > use or reproduction of the information is strictly prohibited and may > subject you to civil or criminal penalties. > _______________________________________________ > Sepsisgroups mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sepsisgroups.org/listinfo.cgi/sepsisgroups-sepsisgroups.org > > > -- If you have received this message in error, please notify Middlesex Health System by sending a reply email to the sender or calling the Middlesex Hospital Privacy Office Hotline at 860-358-4630 and then delete this email and all attachments. The information contained in this email and any attached files from Middlesex Health System are confidential under federal and state law and are intended only for the person to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any inappropriate use or reproduction of the information is strictly prohibited and may subject you to civil or criminal penalties.
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