Lactic acidosis, identified by a state of acidosis and an elevated plasma lactate concentration is one type of anion gap metabolic acidosis and may result from numerous conditions. It remains the most common cause of metabolic acidosis in hospitalized patients.
This time, weâre talking about another wartime hero: Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing. During her early life, she defied the conventions of her social status, choosing to study nursing and science rather than marry and have children.
As early as 1311 we read of nurses and women surgeons in the old French chronicles, and they were common enough in England in King John's time. Of course it was Florence Nightingale, by her heroic services in the Crimea, who first brought nursing to the dignity of a profession.