TY - JOUR T1 - Non-septic hyperlactataemia in the emergency department JF - Emergency Medicine Journal JO - Emerg Med J SP - 411 LP - 412 DO - 10.1136/emj.2009.087379 VL - 27 IS - 5 AU - C Reid AU - V Rees AU - H Collyer-Merritt Y1 - 2010/05/01 UR - http://emj.bmj.com/content/27/5/411.3.abstract N2 - As emergency physicians increasingly play their part in the worldwide campaign to identify and resuscitate patients with severe sepsis and septic shock,1 serum lactate is being measured more frequently as an initial investigation. It is, however, important to remember the other causes2 of a raised serum lactate. Fortunately, these causes lend themselves to the formation of a handy … ER -