background and purpose: acute physiology and chronic health evaluation (apache ii) is a scoring system that describes and predicts the severity of acute illness in patients admitted in intensive care units. its application is helpful in therapeutic monitoring methods, comparing the effectiveness of treatments and the decision to change the treatment, and comparing the performance and quality of...

results sixty two patients had dka. the comparison of apache ii score among two groups of the patients did not show any significant difference (p = 0.597). there was no suitable cut-off point for apache ii score to predict dka. conclusions apache ii score cannot be applied in the predicting of dka in hyperglycemic patients admitted in ed. objectives the present study aims to evaluate the effica...

In a recent issue of the Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Bouza et al. provided interesting insight into the putative effect that the volume of blood cultured per patient had upon the rate of detection of bloodstream infections (BSI) (1). According to the authors, in the total of the sample, the volume of blood cultured was not an independent predictor capable of affecting blood culture result...

OBJECTIVE Sepsis is associated with an increase in reactive oxygen species and low endogenous antioxidative capacity. We postulated that high-dose supplementation of sodium-selenite would improve the outcome of patients with severe sepsis and septic shock. DESIGN Prospective randomized, placebo-controlled, multiple-center trial. SETTING Eleven intensive care units in Germany. PATIENTS Pat...

BACKGROUND The Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II) score is used to determine disease severity and predict outcomes in critically ill patients. However, the prognostic significance of APACHE after acute paraquat (PQ) poisoning remains unclear. The meta-analysis was aimed to study the value of APACHE II in predicting mortality in PQ-exposed Chinese and Korean patients. ...

It has been our clinical impression that the range of the mean frontal-plane electrocardiographic QRS axis was greater than might have been anticipated in healthy Navajo and Apache Indians. To determine whether this clinical impression was correct, electrocardiograms were obtained from 146 Navajo, 144 Apache, and 159 non-Navajo non-Apache schoolchildren with normal findings on cardiovascular ex...

OBJECTIVE To examine the accuracy of the existing data collection system in an intensive care unit (ICU). METHODS Prospective audit of data collection for APACHE II in a six-bedded general ICU in a region-al hospital for consecutive ICU admissions over a 12 month period. The existing resident medical officer (RMO) data collection system continued unaltered while concurrent collection of APACH...