Background. Reliable ICU severity scores have been achieved by various healthcare workers but nothing is known regarding the accuracy in real life of severity scores registered by untrained nurses. Methods. In this retrospective multicentre audit, three reviewers independently reassessed 120 SAPS II scores. Correlation and agreement of the sum-scores/variables among reviewers and between nurses...

OBJECTIVE Adult intensive care unit prognostic models have been used for predicting patient outcome for three decades. The goal of this review is to describe the different versions of the main adult intensive care unit prognostic models and discuss their potential roles. DATA SOURCE PubMed search and review of the relevant medical literature. SUMMARY The main prognostic models for assessing...

Early recognition of sepsis and the rapid institution of therapy are absolutely essential for appropriate management of patients admitted to the hospital. Both score-generating clinical tools and clinical acumen are important for identifying the sick, while early intervention in acute deterioration is beneficial, before and after ICU admission. Several scoring systems have been devised which at...

BACKGROUND Although the use of cardiac extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is increasing in adult patients, the field lacks understanding of associated risk factors. While standard intensive care unit risk scores such as SAPS II (simplified acute physiology score II), SOFA (sequential organ failure assessment), and APACHE II (acute physiology and chronic health evaluation II), or disease...

abstract background: clinical risk index of babies (crib), score for neonatal acute physiology (snap), an update of the clinical risk index for babies score (crib ii) and score for neonatal acute physiology - perinatal extension (snap-pe) are scoring devices developed in neonatal intensive care units. this study reviewed these scoring systems in critically ill neonates to determine how well the...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of five general severity-of-illness scores (Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II and III-J, the Simplified Acute Physiology Score II, and the Mortality Probability Models at admission and at 24 hours of intensive care unit [ICU] stay), and to validate a specific score - the ICU Cancer Mortality Model (CMM) - in canc...

Objectives The aim of this study was to compare the discriminatory power of two prognostic scores, SAPS 3 and APACHE II, in surgical patients. Methods Retrospectively collected data from all surgical patients admitted to a Brazilian hospital ICU between January 2011 and December 2013 were analyzed. The standardized mortality ratio (SMR) was computed for mortality prediction. The predictive abil...