Unless there is such continuous measurement system otherwise it will be hard to do. The turnaround time for lactate measurement usually will take hours even in level 3 hospitals. It will be hard to use it for monitoring sepsis.

Ru-Jeng,

thanks a lot for your answer on my question. I totally agree with you and if I understand you correctly, you also don´t know about an authoritative study on this topic. Is this right?

I have to admit it that I have not read anything about it. As a clinician my experience is the turnaround time is too long.

There is a central venous catheter that can measure ongoing lactate with a delay of 15 minutes of real time. There are some studies in progress trying to correlate the values in the initial management of sepsis.

Hi David,

many thanks for your answer. There seems to be a light at the horizon. Lets hope for further studies. I would highly appreciate to stay in contact with you.

Günter

I dont know about continuous lactate measuring, but I think lactat level would be a valuable marker for early detection and commencement of treatment for sepsis which quickly can be measured concomitently with blood gases analysis. 

With Recent ABG analysis machine u get lactate within 3 minutes... 

Hi Ankur,

thank you very much for your answer.  If I understand you correctly, you propose  an ABG analysis. This in fact should work very fast. What I am looking for are authoritative studies on sepsis diagnosis using continuously measuring  lactate and in parallel being non invasive.