Trends in lactate levels have more prognostic implications than does a single value. Patient monitoring has advanced beyond measuring heart rate and temperature. Parameters such as blood pressure, pulse oximetry, arterial blood gases, and urine output are consistently being monitored more closely, especially in critically ill patients.
In terms of the economy, globalization refers to the expansion of capitalism to include all places around the world into one globally integrated economic system. Culturally, it refers to the global spread and integration of ideas, values, norms, behaviors, and ways of life.
1. Globalization in the History of Ideas. The term globalization has only become commonplace in the last two decades, and academic commentators who employed the term as late as the 1970s accurately recognized the novelty of doing so (Modelski 1972).