Bijan J. Teja

Strategies for Handling Missing Serum Lactate When Identifying Septic Shock in ICU Databases: A Plasmode Simulation Study in Alberta ICUs and MIMIC-IV

Septic shock is defined by a serum lactate of 2 mmol/L or more measured around the time of suspected infection, but ICU databases often lack a lactate in that window. Studies exclude such patients, use a value measured at another time, predict it or impute it, and the choice chan...