Continuous Lactate Monitoring
Lactate is an intermediate product of sugar metabolism in the human body, which is formed by the reduction of pyruvate. It is one of the most important metabolic indicators of the human body.
Normal level 0.5~2 mM, may increase during exercise.
One of the critical indicators in ICU, used by doctors to judge the survival chance of patients
The world #1 New England Journal of Medicine started to publish hundreds to thousands of papers from 1950’s about lactate detection and its correlation to many diseases such as sepsis and tried to use lactate as an early indicator to alarm potentially fatal status of human body.
There is a very important correlation between the level of lactate and the internal environment of the body. Emergency doctors often need to dynamically detect the level of serum lactate in patients to understand the changes in their condition and take actions in time to improve the success rate of rescue.
When the concentration is higher than 4 mM, there may be fatal complications, and the chance of survival is low. Doctors need to start intervention medication or other emergency methods in time to improve the survival rate of patients.
Monitoring during exercise
Lactate is the indicator of muscle fatigue endurance level, so the monitoring is used for sports training, personal health and weight loss management, especially for professional athlete training, and to develop personal exercise programs.