Title |
Development of the Post Cardiac Surgery (POCAS) prognostic score
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Published in |
Critical Care, September 2013
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DOI | 10.1186/cc13017 |
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Authors |
Eduardo Tamayo, Inma Fierro, Juan Bustamante-Munguira, María Heredia-Rodríguez, Pablo Jorge-Monjas, Laura Maroto, Esther Gómez-Sánchez, Francisco Jesús Bermejo-Martín, Francisco Javier Álvarez, José Ignacio Gómez-Herreras |
Abstract |
The risk of mortality in cardiac surgery is generally evaluated using preoperative risk-scale models. However, intraoperative factors may change the risk factors of patients, and the organism functionality parameters determined upon ICU admittance could therefore be more relevant in deciding operative mortality. The goals of this study were to find associations between the general parameters of organism functionality upon ICU admission and the operative mortality following cardiac operations, to develop a Post Cardiac Surgery (POCAS) Scale to define operative risk categories and to validate an operative mortality risk score. |
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