Paediatric sequential organ failure assessment (pSOFA) score: a new mortality prediction score in the paediatric intensive care unit

Objectives: To assess performance of the age-adapted SOFA score in children admitted into Paediatric Intensive Care Units (PICUs) and whether the SOFA score can compete with the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) in diagnosing sepsis, as recommended in the Sepsis-3 consensus definitions....

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Main Authors: Ghada Mohamed El-Mashad, Muhammad Said El-Mekkawy, Mohamed Helmy Zayan
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Elsevier 2020-05-01
Series:Anales de Pediatría (English Edition)
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2341287919302182