Base excess is superior to lactate-levels in prediction of ICU mortality after cardiac surgery

• Bjoern Zante ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: bjoern.zante@insel.ch

  Affiliations Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Heart Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1161-9648

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• Hermann Reichenspurner,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Heart Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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• Mathias Kubik,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Heart Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Center of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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• Stefan Kluge,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Center of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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• Joerg C. Schefold ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joerg C. Schefold, Carmen A. Pfortmueller

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Carmen A. Pfortmueller

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joerg C. Schefold, Carmen A. Pfortmueller

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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