Point-of-Care Measurement of Blood Lactate in Children Admitted With Febrile Illness to an African District Hospital | Zendy

George Mtove | Zendy; Behzad Nadjm | Zendy; Ilse C. E. Hendriksen | Zendy; Ben Amos | Zendy; Federico Muro | Zendy; Jim Todd | Zendy; Hugh Reyburn | Zendy

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Point-of-Care Measurement of Blood Lactate in Children Admitted With Febrile Illness to an African District Hospital

Author(s) -

George Mtove,

Behzad Nadjm,

Ilse C. E. Hendriksen,

Ben Amos,

Federico Muro,

Jim Todd,

Hugh Reyburn

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1093/cid/cir471

Subject(s) - medicine , lactic acidosis , odds ratio , confidence interval , tachypnea , malaria , acidosis , pediatrics , pathology , tachycardia

Lactic acidosis is a consistent predictor of mortality owing to severe infectious disease, but its detection in low-income settings is limited to the clinical sign of "deep breathing" because of the lack of accessible technology for its measurement. We evaluated the use of a point-of-care (POC) diagnostic device for blood lactate measurement to assess the severity of illness in children admitted to a district hospital in Tanzania.

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