Sethu Babu
Dr, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Pushpagiri Institute of Medical Sciences, Thiruvalla, Kerala, IndiaPublications
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Research Article
SOFA Score on Presentation to Emergency Department in Predicting in-Hospital Mortality of Patients with Sepsis
Author(s): Gudithi Bhuvaneswari, Sethu Babu*, Susan Tharian and Mathew Pulicken
Background: Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score (SOFA) is an objective tool to describe individual and aggregate organ dysfunction in critically ill patients. The aim of the study was to determine the diagnostic utility of Admission time SOFA score calculated at the Emergency Department (ED) in predicting in-hospital mortality of patients with suspected sepsis. Materials and methods: Patients aged 18 years or above with clinical features of infection and satisfying two or more q SOFA criteria were enrolled into the study. On arrival to the emergency department, patients were assessed and resuscitated as per the institutional sepsis protocol. Clinical and laboratory parameters required to calculate the SOFA score were collected and documented at the ED. Patients are then followed up to the clinical end point as defined as Survival to hospital discharg.. Read More»