Correlation between Arterial Lactate and Central Venous Lactate in Children with Sepsis

Table 3

Bivariate analysis arterial lactate versus venous lactate. Relationship between arterial and venous lactate and factors like sex, vasopressors, severity of illness, and other medications such as antibiotics and sedatives.

	Arterial lactate	value	Venous lactate	value
Sex
Female (mean ± SD)	1.905 (1.128)	0.031	2.188 (1.226)	0.522
Male (mean ± SD)	1.295 (0.725)		1.374 (0.740)
Type of sepsis
Sepsis (mean ± SD)	1,594 (0,667)	0,624	1,59 (0,758)	0,124
Septic shock (mean ± SD)	1,435 (0,947)		1,612 (1,023)
Vasoactive
Yes (mean ± SD)	1,452 (0,912)	0,915	1,617 (0,992)	0,068
No (mean ± SD)	1,63 (0,718)		1,51 (0,739)
Medications
Yes (mean ± SD)	1,545 (1,129)	0,762	1,707 (1,211)	0,641
No (mean ± SD)	1,386 (0,534)		1,497 (0,598)