Critical acute pancreatitis (CAP) has recently emerged as the most ominous severity category of acute pancreatitis (AP). As such there have been no studies specifically designed to evaluate predictors of CAP. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the accuracy of 4 parameters (Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation [APACHE] II score, C-reactive protein [CRP], D-dimer, and intra-abdominal p...

BACKGROUND This study was undertaken to observe the characteristics of blood pressure variability (BPV) and sepsis and to investigate changes in blood pressure and its value on the severity of illness in patients with sepsis. METHODS Blood parameters, APACHE II score, and 24-hour ambulatory BP were analyzed in 89 patients with sepsis. RESULTS In patients with APACHE II score>19, the values ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To address the relevance of the IgM component in polyvalent immunoglobulins in sepsis treatment by comparison of the clinical course under polyvalent IgG vs IgGMA therapy in postcardiac surgical patients at high risk for sepsis and to reassess the prognostic validity of sequential changes in acute physiology and chronic health evaluation (APACHE II) scores during treatment. DE...

Sepsis constitutes an important cause of hospital admission with a high mortality rate. Appropriate antibiotic therapy is the cornerstone of therapy in patients with sepsis. Although numerous studies have recommended early antibiotic initiation in severe sepsis or septic shock stages of sepsis syndrome, its role in treatment of patients with sepsis who have not entered these stages remains to b...

BACKGROUND Several acute illness severity scores have been proposed for evaluating patients on admission to intensive care units but these have not been compared for patients with nosocomial bloodstream infection (nBSI). We compared three severity of illness scoring systems for predicting mortality in patients with nBSI due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa. METHODS We performed a historical cohort s...

Aim To verify and compare the accuracies of mortality predictions in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Internal Clinic of Central Military Hospital in Prague, Czech Republic, using model APACHE II and the newer systems of the APACHE IV, SAPS 3 and MPMo III. Methods The data were collected retrospectively between 2011 and 2012, 1000 patients were evaluated. The assessment of the overall accur...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of the APACHE II (Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II), SAPS II (Simplified Acute Physiology Score II) and SOFA (Sequential Organ Failure Assessment) scores compared to simpler models based on age and Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) in predicting long-term outcome of patients with moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury ...

BACKGROUND Gallstone Pancreatitis (GP) is not an uncommon disease in our country and is associated with large number of morbidity and mortality especially if severe complications develop. Different criteria have been developed to predict the complications of GP. Simple admission criteria are better predictors of severe complications of GP than an APACHE II score of 5 or greater, a modified Imri...