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From: Lactate versus non-lactate metabolic acidosis: a retrospective outcome evaluation of critically ill patients

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Mortality associated with the major ion contributing to the metabolic acidosis. Hospital mortality associated with the various etiologies of metabolic acidosis (standard base excess (SBE) < -2). Mortality percentage is mortality within each subgroup, not a percentage of overall mortality. 'Lactate' indicates that lactate contributes to at least 50% of the SBE; 'SIG', SIG contributes to at least 50% of SBE (and not lactate); 'hyperchloremic', absence of lactate or SIG acidosis and SBE < -2; 'none', no metabolic acidosis (SBE ≥ -2 mEq/l). SIG, strong ion gap. p < 0.001 for the four-group comparison.

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