conclusions the results of this study indicated that patients with sepsis had lower serum vitamin d levels than healthy controls. also, patients with more severe disease had lower serum vitamin d levels, but to evaluate causation and determine whether vitamin d supplementation could be effective in reducing the risk or severity of sepsis, randomized controlled trials should be conducted. result...

conclusions: rsbi and apache ii score in patients with copd exacerbation are of the ability to predict niv requirement, as a predicting factor of non-invasive ventilation requirement. results: patients requiring niv included 43.9 % of all studied patients. rsbi and apache ii score with sensitivity of 94.8 %, (cut off point = 110) and 72 % (cut off point = 14) respectively, had high diagnostic s...

results sixty two patients had dka. the comparison of apache ii score among two groups of the patients did not show any significant difference (p = 0.597). there was no suitable cut-off point for apache ii score to predict dka. conclusions apache ii score cannot be applied in the predicting of dka in hyperglycemic patients admitted in ed. objectives the present study aims to evaluate the effica...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Outcome prediction of critically ill patients is an integral part of care in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) scoring systems provide an objective means of mortality prediction in ICU. The aim of this study was to compare the performance of APACHE II and IV scoring system in our ICU. MATERIAL AND METHODS All patients adm...

Background: Opioid poisoning is the most common type of poisoning in intensive care units (ICUs). This group usually includes patients who have been drug abusers for a long time and now require hospitalization either because of acute overdose or due to side effects of routine opioid use. This study aimed to compare the severity and prognosis of patients using common mortality predictors Sequent...

Objective Acute pancreatitis presents a broad clinical spectrum ranging from cases so mild that symptoms abate before the diagnosis is actively pursued, to cases which progress rapidly to multisystem failure and eventual demise of patient despite current mode of therapy. Methods A retrospective study of 50 patients diagnosed as acute pancreatitis was done. Patients suffering from acute pancreat...

aim and background: the estimation systems of mortality based on severity of disease are increasingly popularin the last 20 years, especially in the field of medical care. the purpose of this study is to evaluate the prognosis ofhospitalized icu patients according to apache 2 scoring system in educational hospitals in ilam city during 2013.methods and materials: in order to perform this prospec...

BACKGROUND The acute pancreatitis is an inflammatory process that may involve peripancreatic tissue and distant organs. According to the Atlanta criteria, in 10 to 20% of the patients the disease is severe. Nowadays there are different clinical and biochemical severity scales such as the Ranson, APACHE-II (Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation) and hematocrit, which have discrepancies ...