Elevated lactate levels and impaired lactate clearance during extracorporeal life support (ECLS) are associated with poor outcome in cardiac surgery patients

• René Rissel ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Rene.Rissel@unimedizin-mainz.de

  Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology, Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9395-7295

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• Sascha Koelm,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology, Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

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• Markus Schepers,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics (IMBEI), University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

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• Daniel-Sebastian Dohle,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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• Joerg Albers,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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• Mehmet Oezkur,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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• Marc Kriege,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology, Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7350-7908

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• Marc Bodenstein

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology, Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

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