Agreement Between Arterial, Central Venous, and Peripheral Venous Lactate Measurements in the Intensive Care Unit

Olive View-UCLA Education & Research Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Acid-base Analysis

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01408251

193070

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to see if blood obtained from a vein (smaller blood vessel) can be used instead of blood obtained from an artery (larger blood vessel).

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients admitted to the ICU and requiring both an arterial line and central venous line as prt of their clinical care

Exclusion criteria

• Patient did not desire to participate