Blood Lactate Is a Useful Indicator for the Medical Emergency Team

Table 2

Characteristics of survivors and nonsurvivors after 30 days, univariate analysis.

	Survivors value, median	Nonsurvivors value, median	value	(%) of patients fulfilling criteria
Number of patients	147	64
Age, years	76	81	0.0199
Lactate, mmol/L	1.54	2.50	<0.001
Respiratory rate, breaths/min	24	28	0.092	63 (30%)
Oxygen saturation, %	90	85	<0.002	119 (63%)
Systolic blood pressure, mmHg	120	120	0.374	59 (28%)
Heart rate, beats/min	100	110	0.237	33 (16%)

Significant tests (level of significance set at with respect to Bonferroni correction for multiple comparisons for the six different tests).