Does thrombocytopenia predict mortality in adult ICU patients?
Thrombocytopenia serves as an independent and complementary risk marker for mortality in adult ICU patients.
Thrombocytopenia is common in ICUs and constitutes a simple and readily available risk marker for mortality, independent of and complementary to established severity of disease indices. Both a low nadir platelet count and a large fall of platelet count predict a poor vital outcome in adult ICU patients.
Vanderschueren et al. (Thu,) studied this question.