BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to assess the prognostic accuracy of Child-Pugh and APACHE II and III scoring systems in predicting short-term, hospital mortality of patients with liver cirrhosis. METHODS 200 admissions of 147 cirrhotic patients (44% viral-associated liver cirrhosis, 33% alcoholic, 18.5% cryptogenic, 4.5% both viral and alcoholic) were studied prospectively. Clinical and...

OBJECTIVE To determine the efficacy of the Mortality in Emergency Department Sepsis (MEDS) score in the stratification of patients who presented to the emergency department (ED) with severe sepsis. METHODS Adults who presented to the ED with severe sepsis were retrospectively recruited and divided into group A (MEDS score <12) and group B (MEDS score > or =12). Their outcomes were evaluated w...

BACKGROUND Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is the leading cause of mortality associated with nosocomial infection. The Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II) score at the time of diagnosis of VAP is considered the best scoring system to predict mortality in patients with VAP. The objective of this study was to develop a simple score to predict mortality in patients ...

OBJECTIVE To compare the Acute Physiology, Age and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) III with the Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS II) in discriminating in-hospital mortality for intensive care unit (ICU) patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). DESIGN Prospective, observational, multicenter study. SETTING 70 Spanish ICUs. PATIENTS AND PARTICIPANTS 1711 patients with AMI a...

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...

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...

Background: Hospital bed capacity is one of problems in intensive care unit during at the time of crisis, emergencies and disasters. At this regard, it seems reverse triage can resolve this issue by using predictive score systems. This study was purposed to develop a reverse triage system in intensive care unit using APACHE II scoring system for crisis, emergencies and disasters situations. Me...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To assess morbidity and mortality as well as to prognosticate the patients by using SOFA and APACHE II scores of patients with sepsis, severe sepsis and multi-organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) in rural setup ICU. MATERIAL AND METHODOLOGY We carried out prospective study on patients with sepsis as per ACCP guidelines and analysed their clinical and microbiological profile. ...

OBJECTIVES The study’s objective was to implement a methodological approach, "Acute Physiological and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE-II),” classify critically ill patients based on severity. METHODOLOGY A retrospective study design conducted at Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital Lahore, Pakistan, from May 2019 2020. pilot of 6 months by reviewing the medical record 30 adult following...

INTRODUCTION There are numerous prehospital descriptive scoring systems, and it is uncertain whether they are efficient in assessing of the severity of illness and whether they have a prognostic role in the estimation of the illness outcome (in comparison with that of the prognostic scoring system Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation [APACHE] II). The purpose of the present study was ...