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Organic acidaemia in intensive care unit patients

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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.

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  1. N. Buchanan

    Present address: Radiometer A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark

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  1. Metabolic and Nutrition Research Unit, and Baragwanath Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa

    N. Buchanan, R. D. Cane & C. D. Eyberg

  2. Radiometer A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark

    C. D. Eyberg

  3. Knauer, Berlin, Germany

    N. Buchanan & R. D. Cane

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Buchanan, N., Cane, R.D. & Eyberg, C.D. Organic acidaemia in intensive care unit patients. Europ. J. Intensive Care Med 2, 169–176 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00624611

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