POSSUM: A Scoring System for Perforative Peritonitis

Ascarides Proving Suddenly Fatal by Perforative Peritonitis

By R. D. Murray, M B., Officiating Civil Surgeon, Chittagong. Banoo Burmah, aged 40, was admitted into the Cliittagong jail on the 11th May 1876. Health on admission good; on 2Gth June, he was under treatment for one day in hospital for diarrhoea. He was a short term prisoner, employed on penal labour. On the 10th October, he was admitted to hospital with fever, and got some opening medicine fo...

Prognostic scoring systems in the Prediction of the outcome in critically Ill Patients with Perforative Peritonitis

APACHE II scoring system is superior in the prediction of the outcome in critically ill patients with perforative peritonitis.

BACKGROUND There are several scoring systems used in the prediction of outcome in critically ill patients. This study was undertaken to evaluate APACHE II, SAPS I, Sepsis score, MOF, TISS-28 and MPI scoring systems in prediction of the outcome in patients with perforative peritonitis. PATIENTS AND METHODS The prospective study of 145 patients of both sexes with perforative peritonitis was per...

A Prospective Analytical Study Comparing The Effectiveness of Mannheim Peritonitis Index, APACHE-II And P- Possum in Predicting the Mortality of Patients with Perforative Peritonitis

This is a prospective analytical study done on 50 patients with perforative peritonitis in Govt Rajaji Hospital, Madurai. The objective of the study was to analyse Mannheim Peritonitis Index, APACHE-II and pPOSSUM by comparing Discriminatory ability, Positive predictive value, Sharpness of prediction and Reliability of prediction. Online calculators were used to calulate risk of mortality and s...

Evaluation of a Modified POSSUM Scoring System for Predicting the Morbidity in Patients Undergoing Lumbar Surgery.

For most spine surgeons, operative intervention is common for the treatment of lumbar disc herniation, lumbar stenosis, lumbar fracture or lumbar spondylolisthesis. However, with the increase in lumbar surgery, the complication rate increases accordingly. Whereas the Physiological and Operative Severity Score for the enUmeration of Mortality and Morbidity (POSSUM) scoring system has been widely...