Acute renal failure (ARF) is a complex syndrome, frequently reported with mortality in 20-80% of the patients. Infection, as a cause or a complication of the syndrome, is a risk factor which unfavourably determines the outcome. A prospective 4-year study was performed of 112 ARF patients in the intensive care unit (ICU), with an evaluation of 68 clinical and laboratory parameters, as risk facto...

OBJECTIVES To develop an influenza pandemic ICU triage (iPIT) protocol that excludes patients with the highest and lowest predicted mortality rates, and to determine the increase in ICU bed availability that would result. DESIGN AND SETTING Post-hoc analysis of a study evaluating two triage protocols, designed to determine which patients should be excluded from access to ICU resources during ...

OBJECTIVE To perform a serial assessment and compare ability in predicting the intensive care unit (ICU) mortality of the multiple organ dysfunction score (MODS), sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) and logistic organ dysfunction (LOD) score. MATERIAL AND METHOD The data were collected prospectively on consecutive ICU admissions over a 24-month period at a tertiary referral university ...

OBJECTIVES This study was designed to determine the comparative efficacy of different scoring system in assessing the prognosis of critically ill patients. METHODS This was a retrospective study conducted in medical intensive care unit (MICU) and high dependency unit (HDU) Medical Unit III, Civil Hospital, from April 2012 to August 2012. All patients over age 16 years old who have fulfilled t...

INTRODUCTION Our aim was to evaluate the impact of hyperproteic hypocaloric enteral feeding on clinical outcomes in critically ill patients, particularly on severity of organic failure measured with the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA). MATERIALS AND METHODS In a double blind clinical trial, 80 critically ill adult patients were randomized to hyperproteic hypocaloric or to isocalori...

AIM To assess the performance of proposed scores specific for acute-on-chronic liver failure in predicting short-term mortality among patients with alcoholic hepatitis. METHODS We retrospectively collected data from 264 patients with clinically diagnosed alcoholic hepatitis from January to December 2013 at 21 academic hospitals in Korea. The performance for predicting short-term mortality was...

OBJECTIVES Severe sepsis is a major public health concern and a frequent cause of intensive care unit (ICU) admission with a high fatality rate. Higher (Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score) SOFA score and co-morbidity of acute renal failure (ARF) are risk factors contributing to fatal outcome. This work was meant to study the epidemiology of sepsis in Buraidah central hospital. METHODS ...