Explaines how the lactate test is used, when a lactate test is ordered, and what the results of a lactate test might mean. The lactate test is primarily ordered to help determine if someone has lactic acidosis, a level of lactate that is high enough to disrupt a person's acid-base (ph) balance.
AOM is a commonly used acronym for the following subjects: 1  Academy of Management, a professional association for scholars of management and organizations. 2  Acousto-optic modulator, a device used in optics to shift the angle, intensity, frequency or phase of light. 3  Acute otitis media, inflammation of the middle ear.
Application performance management. In the fields of information technology and systems management, application performance management (APM) is the monitoring and management of performance and availability of software applications. APM strives to detect and diagnose complex application performance problems to maintain an expected level of service.