Intensive Care Medicine Experimental

Table 2 Descriptive statistics of glucose and lactate measurements in cerebrospinal fluid and blood by blood gas analyzers

From: Point-of-care detection of lactate in cerebrospinal fluid

		CSF	Blood
Glucose (mmol/l) N = 512	Mean (standard deviation)	3.7 (± 1.6)	8 (± 2.2)
Glucose (mmol/l) N = 512	Median (min.–max.)	3.8 (0.2–10.5)	7.7 (2.1–19.9)
Lactate (mmol/l) N = 514	Mean (standard deviation)	4.1 (± 1.8)	1.1 (± 0.6)
Lactate (mmol/l) N = 514	Median (min.–max.)	3.7 (1.3–11.5)	0.9 (0.4–5.6)

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