Emergency Medicine
Clinical ReviewFY / Junior
Lactate in Sepsis: From Physiology to Bedside Interpretation
Why raised lactate matters in sepsis, what causes it, and how to use it without anchoring on it.
MBChB, FRCEM
Emergency medicine consultant with a teaching role for foundation and core trainees. Interests in resuscitation, sepsis, and time-critical decisions.
Why raised lactate matters in sepsis, what causes it, and how to use it without anchoring on it.
A walk-through of the UK Sepsis-Six bundle as it actually plays out in a busy resuscitation room, plus what tends to slip.
A small set of high-yield rules and traps to turn an arterial blood gas from a wall of numbers into a story.
The SNOOP10 framework for spotting the headache that isn't primary, with what to do at the bedside when each red flag is present.