Look to lactate to help predict ill cats' prognoses
Thursday, April 13, 2017 - 09:22
in Health & Medicine
Researchers performed a retrospective study of cats treated in the intensive care unit of Penn's Ryan Hospital. In cats with low blood pressure, the researchers found that animals with a normal level of lactate, a byproduct of metabolism under low-oxygen conditions, were more likely to survive to discharge than those with high lactate levels.