Background: It is believed that hypoalbuminaemia confounds interpretation of the anion gap
(AG) unless corrected for serum albumin in critically ill children with shock. Aim: To compare …

Aims: Hypoalbuminaemia has significance in adult critical illness as an independent
predictor of mortality. In addition, the anion gap is predominantly due to the negative charge …

An accurate method to predict the mortality in the intensive care unit (ICU) patients has been
required, especially in children. The aim of this study is to evaluate the value of serum anion …

Background Base deficit (BD), anion gap (AG), and albumin corrected anion gap (ACAG)
are used by clinicians to assess the presence or absence of hyperlactatemia (HL). We set …

Background: An elevated lactate level reflects impaired tissue oxygenation and is a predictor
of mortality. Studies have shown that the anion gap is inadequate as a screen for …

We used 100 routine blood samples from critically ill patients to establish whether correcting
the anion‐gap and base‐deficit for decreased plasma albumin improves agreement with the …

Objective To evaluate whether hypoalbuminemia on admission is a predictor of adverse
outcome in critically ill children. Design Retrospective medical record review. Setting A 14 …

Many critically ill and injured patients, especially those with metabolic acidosis, have
abnormally high levels of unmeasured anions in their blood. At the same time, such patients …

Introduction Hypoproteinaemia leads to spuriously high-sodium values when measured by
indirect ion-selective electrodes (ISE) as used in main laboratory analysers compared with …

Objective To test the hypothesis that the rate of degradation of exogenously administered
albumin is fater with bolus administration that with continuous infusion and thus that a bolus …