To study the serum lactate albumin ratio in the patients with sepsis a one year cross sectional study in kles dr. prabhakar kore hospital and mrc, belgavi

Abstract

Background and objectives: Severe sepsis and septic shock, are the major cause of emergency room admission and are associated with high morbidity and mortality worldwide. It is known that increased serum lactate is prognostic marker of generalized tissue hypoxia in distributive shock. Serum albumin is a negative acute phase protein and marker of outcome of sepsis which decreases during the response of active phase of infections. As each of the two parameters independently predicts mortality, a combination of both was meant to further increase the predictive value. Hence this study aims to evaluate L/A ratio to predict mortality in sepsis.