Published in:
01-02-2004 | Poster presentation
Can we identify futility of care in the sickest critically ill patients on the third ICU day?
Authors:
B Afessa, M Keegan, Z Mohammad, S Peters
Published in:
Critical Care
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Special Issue 1/2004
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Excerpt
Various models are used to predict mortality of patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) based on the first ICU day findings. Some of these models have developed daily scoring systems for the subsequent ICU days. There is no consensus regarding the definition of futility and there are no reliable ways of identifying patients for whom ICU care is futile. The purpose of this retrospective study was to determine whether we can identify factors associated with futility in the sickest patients admitted to the ICU. We hypothesized that any increase in the acute physiology score (APS) from the first ICU day to the third ICU day would identify very sick patients with futile care. …
