APACHE II Score and Abdominal Sepsis
- 1 February 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Surgery
- Vol. 123 (2), 225-229
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.1988.01400260113014
Abstract
• Therapeutic trials for intra-abdominal sepsis require pretreatment stratification; physiologic scoring has been recently proposed for this purpose. We have prospectively tested the validity of one such scoring system, namely, the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE II). As part of a larger database, we correlated APACHE II scores with mortality in 100 patients hospitalized for generalized peritonitis or abdominal abscess. Use of steroids was recorded because of our suspicion that steroids increase mortality but blunt the physiologic response to sepsis. Thirty-one patients died, including 12 of 19 patients receiving steroids. Stepwise discriminant analysis revealed that the APACHE II score and steroid use were each independently associated with the rate of mortality. We report a prospective validation of pretreatment APACHE II scoring in abdominal sepsis. Steroid use is an independent risk factor. (Arch Surg 1988;123:225-229)Keywords
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