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.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Democratic globalization is a social movement towards an institutional system of global democracy that would give world citizens a say in world organizations. This would, in their view, bypass nation-states, corporate oligopolies, ideological NGOs, cults and mafias.