Cerebrospinal fluid lactate Is it a reliable and valid marker to distinguish between acute bacterial meningitis and aseptic meningitis.docVIP

Prasad and Sahu Critical Care 2011,15:104 /content/15/1/104 CO MMENTA RY Cerebrospinal ? uid lactate: Is it a reliable and valid marker to distinguish between acute bacterial meningitis and aseptic meningitis? Kameshwar Prasad* and Jitendra Kumar Sahu See related research by Huy et al., /content/14/6/R240 independent reviewers for selection of studies, data Abstract extraction, and quality assessment. e chance-corrected Cerebrospinal ?uid (CSF) lactate assay has been a subject of research since 1925. A systematic review by Huy and colleagues in the previous issue of Critical