Hypoxemia in the presence or absence of systemic inflammation does not increase blood lactate levels in healthy volunteers

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PURPOSE: Elevated lactate levels are a sign of critical illness and may result from insufficient oxygen delivery. We investigated whether hypoxemia and/or systemic inflammation, results in increased lactate levels in healthy volunteers.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: 30 healthy volunteers were exposed to either 3.5 h of hypoxemia (FiO2 ± 11.5%), normoxemic endotoxemia (FiO2 21%, administration of 2 ng/kg endotoxin), or hypoxemic endotoxemia (n = 10 per group). Blood lactate, hemoglobin, SpO2, PaO2, PaCO2, pH, and hemodynamic parameters were serially measured.

RESULTS: Hypoxemic treatment resulted in lower SpO2 (81.7 ± 2.6 and 81.4 ± 2.4% in the hypoxemia and hypoxemic endotoxemia groups, respectively) and hyperventilation with a PaCO2 decrease of 0.8 ± 0.5 and 1.5 ± 0.6 kPa and an increase in pH. Arterial oxygen content (CaO2) decreased by 20.5 ± 2.9 and 23.5 ± 4.4%, respectively. Lactate levels were slightly, but significantly higher in both hypoxemic groups compared with the normoxemic endotoxemia group over time (p < 0.0001 for both groups), but remained below 2.3 mmol/L in all subjects. Whereas PaO2 and SpO2 did not correlate with lactate levels, PaCO2, pH and CaO2 did.

CONCLUSIONS: Hypoxemia, in the absence or presence of inflammation does not result in relevant increases of lactate. The small increases in lactate observed are likely to be due to hyperventilation-related decreases in glycolysis.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:71

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Journal of critical care - 71(2022) vom: 01. Okt., Seite 154116

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kiers, H D [VerfasserIn]
Pickkers, P [VerfasserIn]
Kox, M [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Endotoxemia
Hypoxemia
Journal Article
Lactate
Lactates
Oxygen
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
S88TT14065

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Date Completed 02.09.2022

Date Revised 03.11.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jcrc.2022.154116

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NLM34392398X