title: Organic acidaemia in intensive care unit patients.
abstract: Forty ICU patients were studied as to the prevalence and importance of organic acidaemia. It was observed that organic acidaemia was extremely common, secondly that a persistence of such an acidaemia heralded a poor prognosis and finally that the acidaemia rarely needed treatment in its own right.
mesh_terms: D000138:Acidosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology; D058186:Acute Kidney Injury / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy; D000328:Adult; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D002648:Child; D003422:Critical Care; D003926:Diabetic Coma / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008103:Liver Cirrhosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D011041:Poisoning / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy; D011182:Postoperative Care; D011247:Pregnancy; D012769:Shock / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy