Retrospective study on prognostic importance of serum procalcitonin and amino - terminal pro - brain natriuretic peptide levels as compared to Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation IV Score on Intensive Care Unit admission, in a mixed Intensive Care Unit population

Background: Timely decision making in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is very essential to improve the outcome of critically sick patients. Conventional scores like Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE IV) are quite cumbersome with calculations and take minimum 24 hours. Procalcitonin ha...

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الحاوية / القاعدة:	Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia
المؤلفون الرئيسيون:	Chitra Mehta, Babita Dara, Yatin Mehta, Ali M Tariq, George V Joby, Manish K Singh
التنسيق:	مقال
اللغة:	الإنجليزية
منشور في:	Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2016-01-01
الموضوعات:	Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation IV Score; Intensive Care Unit admission; Morbidity; Mortality; NTproBNP; Procalcitonin; Prognostic
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:	http://www.annals.in/article.asp?issn=0971-9784;year=2016;volume=19;issue=2;spage=256;epage=262;aulast=Mehta