Preoperative Early Warning Scores Can Predict In-Hospital Mortality and Critical Care Admission Following Emergency Surgery

Journal of Surgical Research

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 729-734

  Garcea, Giuseppe ^a   Ganga, Ramarao ^a   Neal, Christopher P ^a   Ong, Seok L ^a   Dennison, Ashley R ^a   Berry, David P ^a  

^a LEICESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ASA; emergency surgery; EWS; POSSUM; prediction

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; SERUM ALBUMIN; UREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ALERTNESS; APACHE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BREATHING RATE; EARLY WARNING SCORE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; OPERATION DURATION; PHYSIOLOGIC AND OPERATIVE SEVERITY SCORE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEROLOGY; SURVIVAL RATE; UREA BLOOD LEVEL; URINE VOLUME;

APACHE; CRITICAL CARE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; SYSTOLE;

EID: 77949489038     PISSN: 00224804     EISSN: 10958673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2008.08.013     Document Type: Article

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