INTRODUCTION Patients admitted to intensive care following surgery for faecal peritonitis present particular challenges in terms of clinical management and risk assessment. Collaborating surgical and intensive care teams need shared perspectives on prognosis. We aimed to determine the relationship between dynamic assessment of trends in selected variables and outcomes. METHODS We analysed tre...

Results The two groups did not differ significantly in age, APACHE II score, SOFA score, infection focus, and bacterial species. The 28-day mortality was 32% in the PMXDHP group and 40% in the non-PMX-DHP group, but this difference was not significant. The ⊿CAI (the change in Cathecholamine Index 24 hours after PMX-DHP administration) and the infusion volume 24 hours after PMX-DHP administratio...

BACKGROUND Diffuse alveolar damage (DAD) is a typical pathological finding of open lung biopsies in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Patients with ARDS and DAD have been reported to have a poorer prognosis than those without DAD. The aim of this study was to investigate the survival predictors in patients with ARDS and DAD. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed all ARDS...

Most patients staying in the intensive care unit (ICU) require respiratory support through a ventilator. Since prolonged mechanical ventilation and weaning from the ventilator without criteria or at the inappropriate time can result in many complications, it is required that patients be weaned off the ventilator as soon as possible. This study was conducted to investigate a few standard tools t...

OBJECTIVE To compare the validity of the Multiple Organ Dysfunction Score (MODS), Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA), and Logistic Organ Dysfunction Score (LOD) for predicting ICU mortality of Thai critically ill patients. MATERIAL AND METHOD A retrospective study was made of prospective data collected between the 1st July 2004 and 31st March 2006 at Songklanagarind Hospital. RESULT...

On February 23rd, 2016, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published a proposal for new definitions and criteria for sepsis, which the authors called Sepsis-3.(1) At the same time, the authors named the previous sepsis definitions Sepsis-1 (from 1991)(2) and Sepsis-2 (from 2001)(3) (Table 1). The proposal was prepared by a task force appointed by the European Society of Inte...

INTRODUCTION Critically ill cirrhosis patients awaiting liver transplantation (LT) often receive prioritization for organ allocation. Identification of patients most likely to benefit is essential. The purpose of this study was to examine whether the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score can predict 90-day mortality in critically ill recipients of LT and whether it can predict receip...