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Table 4 The validity measures of blood lactate in differentiating cerebral damage

From: The clinical significance of blood lactate levels in evaluation of adult patients with veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

Blood lactate

AUROC

95%CI

Cut-off

Sensitivity

Specificity

PPV

NPV

Accuracy

Pre-ECMO lactate

0.685

0.582–0.788

≥ 5.25

75.6%

62.1%

60.7%

76.6%

68.0%

Lactate peak

0.717

0.616–0.819

≥ 15.15

70.8%

69.0%

65.4%

74.1%

69.8%

Lactate after 24 h

0.779

0.686–0.871

≥ 3.25

79.2%

72.4%

70.4%

80.8%

75.5%