In critically ill Chinese surgical patients, LAS VEGAS score had the best but limited predictive performance for postoperative pulmonary complications.
Do the LAS VEGAS, ARISCAT, and CHI-BPRI scores accurately predict postoperative pulmonary complications in critically ill Chinese surgical subjects?
Existing risk scores (LAS VEGAS, ARISCAT, CHI-BPRI) have limited predictive power for postoperative pulmonary complications in critically ill Chinese surgical patients, highlighting the need for population-specific tools.
In critically ill Chinese surgical subjects, the LAS VEGAS, ARISCAT, and CHI-BPRI scores had limited predictive performance for PPCs, and none of the scores achieved strong discriminative power. Among these, the LAS VEGAS score performed best and may offer modest utility for early risk identification. These findings underscore the need for improved, population-specific prediction tools tailored to the unique risk profiles of critically ill surgical patients.
Zhang et al. (2026) studied this question. In critically ill Chinese surgical patients, LAS VEGAS score had the best but limited predictive performance for postoperative pulmonary complications.