tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "External validation of a modified model of Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II for orthotopic liver transplant patients"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: External validation of a modified model of Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II for orthotopic liver transplant patients. | Available online http content 6 3 245 Research External validation of a modified model of Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation APACHE II for orthotopic liver transplant patients Yaseen Arabi1 Adnan Abbasi2 Radoslaw Goraj3 Abdulmajeed Al-Abdulkareem4 Abudullah Al Shimemeri5 Munci Kalayoglu6 and Kenneth Wood7 1 Program Director Critical Care Fellowship Intensive Care Department King Fahad National Guard Hospital Riyadh Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 2Fellow Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics Madison USA 3Assistant Consultant Intensive Care Department King Fahad National Guard Hospital Riyadh Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 4Chairman Hepatobiliary Sciences and Liver Transplantation Department King Fahad National Guard Hospital Riyadh Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 5Chairman Intensive Care Department King Fahad National Guard Hospital Riyadh Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 6Director of Liver Transplantation University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics Madison USA 7Director of Critical Care Medicine University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics Madison USA Correspondence Yaseen Arabi yaseenarabi@ Received 22 October 2001 Revisions requested 24 January 2002 Revisions received 25 February 2002 Accepted 12 March 2002 Published 8 April 2002 Critical Care 2002 6 245-250 2002 Arabi et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd Print ISSN 1364-8535 Online ISSN 1466-609X Abstract Introduction The purpose of the study was to validate the newly derived postoperative orthotopic liver transplantation OLTX -speeifie diagnostic weight for the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation APACHE II mortality prediction system in independent databases. Methods Medical records of 174 liver transplantation patients admitted postoperatively to the adult intensive care units at King Fahad National Guard Hospital and the University of Wisconsin were reviewed and data on age sex the underlying liver disease APACHE II scores and the hospital outcome were .