BACKGROUND Since the 1980s, severity of illness scoring systems has gained increasing popularity in Intensive Care Units (ICUs). Physicians used them for predicting mortality and assessing illness severity in clinical trials. The objective of this study was to assess the performance of Simplified Acute Physiology Score 3 (SAPS 3) and its customized equation for Australasia (Australasia SAPS 3, ...

Objective: The aim of this study is to evaluate the patients who are followed up with a diagnosis head and chest trauma; investigate revised trauma score, simplified acute physiology various biochemistry parameters reveal role these values on mortality rates.Methods: Our an observational cohort that retrospectively examines head, thoracic in university hospital ICU, based database. Data were tr...

BACKGROUND Prognostic value of cortisol and thyroid function tests (TFTs) has previously been evaluated in medical ICUs. We aimed to evaluate prognostic efficacy of cortisol and TFTs in critically ill poisoned patients admitted to toxicology intensive care unit (ICU). METHODS In a prospective study of consecutively enrolled subjects admitted to the toxicology ICU, lab analyses included TFTs (...

OBJECTIVE: Pregnancy is a risk factor for acute respiratory failure (ARF) following severe syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. We hypothesised that SARS-CoV-2 viral load in the tract might be higher pregnant intensive care unit (ICU) patients with ARF than non-pregnant ICU as consequence of immunological adaptation during pregnancy. DESIGN: Single-centre, retrospective observational ...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Severe acute pancreatitis usually requires intensive management of cardiovascular, pulmonary, renal, and septic complications. Many scoring systems are used in determining the outcomes. The aim of the study was to evaluate the role of three scoring systems, i.e. Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation, Sequential Organ Failure Assessment, and modified Ranson's criteria, i...

INTRODUCTION Simplified Acute Physiology Score 3 (SAPS 3) was the first critical care prognostic model developed from worldwide data. We aimed to systematically review studies that assessed the prognostic performance of SAPS 3 general and customized models for predicting hospital mortality in adult patients admitted to the ICU. METHODS Medline, Lilacs, Scielo and Google Scholar were searched ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The SAPS 3 (Simplified Acute Physiology Score 3) prognostic system is composed of 20 parameters, represented by an acute physiology score and assessment of the previous status, aimed at establishing a predictive mortality index for patients admitted to intensive care units (ICU). The objective of this study was to validate this system and determine its discriminatory p...

INTRODUCTION Sepsis is still a leading cause of morbidity and mortality, even in modern times, and thrombocytopenia has been closely associated with unfavorable disease outcome. Decreases in mitochondrial membrane potential (depolarization) were found in different tissues during sepsis. Previous work suggests that mitochondrial dysfunction of platelets correlates with clinical disease activity ...

Real-time prediction of mortality for intensive care unit patients has the potential to provide physicians with a simple and easily interpretable synthesis of patient acuity. Here we extract data from a random time during each patient’s ICU stay. We believe this sampling scheme allows for the application of the model(s) across a future patient’s entire ICU stay. The AUROC of a Gradient Boosting...