Background Trauma patients are characterised by alterations in the immune system, increased exposure to infectious complications, sepsis and potentially organ failure and death. Glutamine supplementation to parenteral nutrition has been proven to be associated with improved clinical outcomes. However, glutamine supplementation in patients receiving enteral nutrition and its best route are still...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to determine the prognosis in patients who needed norepinephrine treatment in our institution in relation to the degree of organ failure and the evolution of the disease process. DESIGN Retrospective case note analysis of outcome of those patients who needed norepinephrine according to our institutional regimen. PATIENTS A total of 100 consecutive patients...

Methods This is a prospective cohort study involving severe sepsis patients admitted to ICU Hasan Sadikin General Hospital Bandung Indonesia between period of August 2013 January 2014. Data of type of admission, initial Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score, mortality and length of stay (LOS) in ICU were collected. Severity of illness was measured using Acute Physiology and Chronic H...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to compare the discriminant function of multiple organ dysfunction score (MODS) and sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) components in predicting the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) mortality and neurologic outcome. MATERIALS AND METHODS A descriptive-analytic study was conducted at a level I trauma center. Data were collected from patients with severe traum...

BACKGROUND Recent data suggest that ubiquitin (Ub) is systemically released after trauma, has pleiotropic effects on host defense mechanisms, and that Ub administration reduces fluid shifts into tissues during inflammation. Ub release after burns (B) has not been studied and its association with injury severity and outcome after blunt trauma (T) is unknown. Thus, we evaluated Ubs association wi...

Sepsis is a common cause of admissions into intensive care units (ICU’s). SOFA (sequential organ failure assessment) score has been validated as prognostic marker in sepsis and there’s good correlation between scoring mortality patients. Diabetes well-known predisposing factor for we studied whether addition HbA1c to was helpful predicting outcomes diabetic patients with septic shock. H-SOFA ma...

Objective: We aimed to investigate the effectiveness of quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA), Multinational Association for Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC), and Clinical Index Stable Febrile Neutropenia (CISNE) scores identifying low-risk febrile neutropenia patients among with chemotherapy-associated emergency department setting.
 Material Method: The risk were calculated d...

Background: The purpose of the present study was to examine the role of mean platelet volume (MPV) in comparison with Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA), quick SOFA (qSOFA), and Mortality in Severe Sepsis in the Emergency Department (MISSED) scoring systems in predicting hospital mortality among patients with severe sepsis. Methods: This follow-up stud...

The association between isolated systolic hypertension (ISH) and incident heart failure (HF) has not been prospectively studied in a propensity-matched population of ambulatory older adults. Of the 5795 participants in the public-use copy of the Cardiovascular Health Study data set, 5248 had diastolic blood pressure <90 mm Hg and were free of HF at baseline. Of these, 2000 (38%) had ISH, define...