Jain A, et al. – Objectives of this study were to report the characteristics of patients with venous non–critical lactate level (NCLAC) and death from trauma, also to evaluate the correlation of venous NCLAC with the time of death. The median survival time was 5.6 days in trauma patients with NCLAC who died during the index hospitalization, around 1/3^rd of patients died within the first 24 h. These findings demonstrated that relying on a triage NCLAC level alone could result in underestimating injury severity and subsequent morbidity and mortality.