Table 4.

Clinical evaluation of absolute subcutaneous adipose tissue versus arterial blood (artLAC) lactate concentrations stratified for individual lactate ranges after 6-hour one-point calibration.

n = 1369 hourly paired lactate readings	Acceptable %	Unacceptable [1st order] %	Unacceptable [2nd order] %
artLAC < 1.5 mM	96.1	3.9	0.0
1.5 mM ≤ artLAC < 3.5 mM	90.9	9.1	0.0
3.5 mM ≤ artLAC < 5 mM	100.0	0.0	0.0
5 mM ≤ artLAC < 10 mM	96.6	3.4	0.0
10 mM ≤ artLAC	100.0	0.0	0.0
Total readings	94.5	5.5	0.0