BACKGROUND Intensivists and nursing staff are often reluctant to admit patients with cancer to the intensive care unit even though these patients' survival rate has improved since the 1980s. OBJECTIVE To identify factors associated with mortality in cancer patients admitted to the intensive care unit and to assess and compare the effectiveness of 3 general prognostic models: the Acute Physiol...

Background: Tools to measure quality are becoming widespread and focus either on the outcomes of care or the processes of care. For intensive care units (ICUs), the main focus on research on outcome measurement has been on the development of mortality prediction models. Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of three general severity-of-illness scores, Acute Physiology a...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the plasma levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) and copeptin, in addition to the acute physiology and chronic health evaluation II (APACHE II) scores, in patients with acute organophosphorus pesticide poisoning (AOPP). A total of 100 patients with AOPP were included and divided into mild, moderate and severe groups according to AOPP diagnosis and cl...

Purpose Urosepsis implies clinically evident severe infection of urinary tract with features of systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS). We validate the role of a single Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II) score at 24 hours after admission in predicting mortality in urosepsis. Materials and Methods A prospective observational study was done in 178 patients adm...

Purpose: The aim of this study was to compare the reliability scoring methods in determining critical geriatric patients emergency department.
 Materials and Methods: This prospective included aged over 65 who presented department between 15 October 2014 November 2014. APACHE II (Acute Physiology Chronic Health Evaluation II), REMS (Rapid Emergency Medicine Score), HOTEL (Hypotension, Oxyg...

Objective: The goal of our study was to determine the prognostic value CURB-65, Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA), pneumonia severity index (PSI), MuLBSTA, and Acute Physiology Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II upon admission in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19, as well prediction cut-off for death regarding these parameters. Methods: This observational retrospectiv...

Objectives: The need for an intensive care unit has increased during the pandemic of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). For this reason, intermediate-level units (IICUs) were established in hospitals worldwide. This study aims to evaluate data patients that hospitalized IICU. Methods: Patients under treatment COVID-19 followed up IICU after negative polymerized chain reaction test. A total 52 eval...

Abstract Background “Dirty mass” is a specific computed tomography (CT) finding that seen frequently in colorectal perforation. The prognostic significance of this for mortality unclear. Methods Fifty-eight consecutive patients with perforation who underwent emergency surgery were retrospectively reviewed the study. Dirty mass identified on multi-detector row CT (MDCT) was 3D-reconstructed and ...

Abstract Objectives To explore the predictive value of C-reactive protein (CRP)-to-albumin (ALB) ratio (CAR) for risk 28-day mortality in patients with severe pneumonia. Methods A total 152 pneumonia treated from January 2020 to 2022 were enrolled and assigned into survival group (n=107) death (n=45) according their status after treatment 28 d. Their clinical data compared, influencing factors ...

Purpose: To investigate the use of enteral nutrition (EN) and factors influencing feeding intolerance (FI) in severely ill patients intensive care unit (ICU).Methods: Retrospective data collection was performed on records 247 admitted to ICU West China Hospital, Chengdu, between January 2020 December 2022. Data were divided into two groups: FI group (n = 107) non-FI 140). Influencing analyzed b...