What is it about?
Sepsis is a global medical challenge with a high incidence and mortality. Prognostication of sepsis is important in ICU to determine the need for defining the severity and predict mortality. Severity of illness of scoring system widely used in ICU.
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Why is it important?
APACHE II and SOFA score are strong predictor of mortality , because high APACHE II and SOFA scores used as a aid to assess the severity of illness and bad chronic health status of the patients and also provides the prognostic information , which was useful for clinician to assess the outcome of patients.
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Sepsis is primary cause of mortality in ICU patients. APACHE II and SOFA score able to predict the morbidity , length of ICU stay , assessment of performance and patients prognosis and guiding care and also able to predict budget of patients .
Nida Choudhry
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This page is a summary of: Validity of APACHE II and SOFA score in Predicting Prognosis in Mechanically Ventilated Patients in Respiratory ICU, September 2021, European Respiratory Society (ERS),
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.congress-2021.pa1774.
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