INTRODUCTION Organ dysfunction or failure after the first days of ICU treatment and subsequent mortality with respect to the type of intensive care unit (ICU) admission is poorly elucidated. Therefore we analyzed the association of ICU mortality and admission for medical (M), scheduled surgery (ScS) or unscheduled surgery (US) patients mirrored by the occurrence of organ dysfunction/failure (OD...

Usefulness of the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) Score in Patients with Sepsis due to Intra-abdominal Infection Won Ho Choi, M.D., Seong Youn Hwang, M.D., Ph.D., Si Youl Jun, M.D., Ph.D., Young Cheol Choi, M.D., Ph.D., Eun Hun Lee, M.D., Wan Sik Yu, M.D., Ph.D. Departments of Surgery and Emergency Medicine, Masan Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Masan, D...

INTRODUCTION Hemodynamic goals in the treatment of acute circulatory failure (ACF) are controversial. In critical care, organ failures can be assessed using Sequential Organ Failure Assessment and its refinement, total maximal Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (TMS). We studied the associations between resolution of ACF and hemodynamics in the early (< 24 hours) phase of intensive care unit c...

results the infusion group had a lower plasma pai-1 level compared to the subcutaneous group at day 7 (11.3 ± 1.6 vs. 16.5 ± 4.2; p = 0.003). the urinary ngal level was lower in the infusion group at day 2 (131.3 ± 11.9 vs. 151.2 ± 20.6; p = 0.014); however, at day 7 the ngal level was decreased in the subcutaneous group as much as the infusion group and there was no significant difference betw...