Category: Toxicology
Keywords: ICU requirement score, physiologic score system (PubMed Search)
Posted: 8/19/2021 by Hong Kim, MD
(Updated: 8/20/2021)
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There are several clinical scoring systems (SAPS II, SAPS III, SOFA, etc.) to assess the severity and/or risk of mortality in critically ill patients. However, the routinely used physiologic scoring systems are not always suitable for poisoned patient.
ICU requirement score (IRS) has been recently developed by investigators from Europe and a validation study (retrospective cohort) has been performed.
ICU requirement score (IRS) components (see inserted table)
Retrospective cohort
Results
N=1503
Area under the curve for IRS ROC: 0.736 (95% CI: 0.702-0.770)
IRS <6
Conclusion
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