Why the study?
Does a cardiorespiratory severity index predict survival in critically ill postoperative general surgical patients?
Population
113 critically ill postoperative general surgical patients
Design
Cohort
Authors
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Severity index showed high predictive accuracy for survival in postoperative shock; hypothesis-generating, needs prospective validation before clinical use.
Does a cardiorespiratory severity index predict survival in critically ill postoperative general surgical patients?
A computerized severity index based on cardiorespiratory data accurately predicts survival in critically ill postoperative surgical patients.
Shoemaker et al. (1979) studied this question.
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