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Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the 2018\u20132020 ICU dataset from MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taiwan. Among 16,693 adult ICU admissions, 2506 patients received continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) as blood purification for severe sepsis or septic shock. Of these, 1264 (50.4%) had available pLac-24h data, and 27 (1.1%) also required extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). The primary outcome was 28-day all-cause mortality. Multivariate logistic regression adjusted for age, sex, APACHE II score, infection source, and CRRT\/ECMO use. Discrimination was evaluated by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves and decision-curve analysis. This analysis was conducted as a predefined sub-analysis of an institutional ICU database. Results: The mean age of the cohort was 65.7 \u00b1 13.4 years, and 64.8% were male. Median pLac-24h was 5.1 mmol\/L (IQR 3.2\u20138.6). The overall 28-day mortality among CRRT patients was 47.3%. Mortality rose progressively across pLac-24h quartiles (Q1\u2013Q4: 28.9%, 39.4%, 54.7%, and 68.1%; p &lt; 0.001). Each 1 mmol\/L increase in pLac-24h independently predicted higher mortality (adjusted OR 1.18, 95% CI 1.10\u20131.26, p &lt; 0.001). The area under the ROC curve for pLac-24h predicting 28-day mortality was 0.78 (95% CI 0.74\u20130.82), outperforming the APACHE II score (AUC 0.69, p = 0.02). Conclusions: In critically ill patients with septic shock undergoing CRRT, peak lactate within 24 h was a strong, independent predictor of 28-day mortality. pLac-24h offers a pragmatic, readily available prognostic indicator when serial lactate measurements are unavailable, supporting its integration into bedside risk assessment in real-world Asian ICU practice.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/life16010062","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,31]],"date-time":"2025-12-31T16:34:23Z","timestamp":1767198863000},"page":"62","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Peak Lactate Within 24 h and Mortality in Septic Shock Patients Receiving Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy: A Real-World Cohort from an Asian ICU (2018\u20132020)"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0000-8179-0486","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Wei-Hung","family":"Chang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Critical Care Medicine, MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taipei 10449, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8251-3808","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ting-Yu","family":"Hu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Critical Care Medicine, MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taipei 10449, Taiwan"},{"name":"Department of Medicine, Mackay Medical College, New Taipei City 25245, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Li-Kuo","family":"Kuo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Critical Care Medicine, MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taipei 10449, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,31]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1181","DOI":"10.1007\/s00134-021-06506-y","article-title":"Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock 2021","volume":"47","author":"Evans","year":"2021","journal-title":"Intensiv. 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