Evaluation of Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation Score II in Acinetobacter baumannii Infection/Colonization and its Antimicrobial Resistance Profile in Kanpur, India

Acinetobacter baumannii is highly resistant pathogen and widely distributed in different hospitals as nosocomial pathogen (Ian et al., 2016). This is mostly isolated from intensive care units. In the last decades, the emergence and rapid spread of Multidrug-resistant A. baumannii have caused a serious clinical problem worldwide (Peleg et al., 2008). In a developing country concerns about the high costs in the ICU are increasing. Thus illness severity scoring systems have been devised depending on therapeutic, anatomical and physiological basis. Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation Score II (APACHE II) is one of the well-known scoring systems that are used to rule out severity of illness. This scoring system has been shown to provide objective discrimination between low-risk and high-risk groups of patients (Knaus et al., 1985). International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 6 Number 7 (2017) pp. 1056-1061 Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com