RT Book, Section
A1 Kasper, Dennis L.
A1 Fauci, Anthony S.
A1 Hauser, Stephen L.
A1 Longo, Dan L.
A1 Jameson, J. Larry
A1 Loscalzo, Joseph
SR Print(0)
ID 1128781762
T1 Principles of Critical Care Medicine
T2 Harrison's Manual of Medicine, 19e
YR 2016
FD 2016
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071828529
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1128781762
RD 2024/04/24
AB Initial  care  of  critically  ill  pts  must  often  be  performed  rapidly  and  before  a  thorough  medical  history  has  been  obtained.  Physiologic  stabilization  begins  with  the  principles  of  advanced  cardiovascular  life  support  and  frequently  involves  invasive  techniques  such  as  mechanical  ventilation  and  renal  replacement  therapy  to  support  organ  systems  that  are  failing.  A  variety  of  severity-of-illness  scoring  systems,  such  as  APACHE  (acute  physiology  and  chronic  health  evaluation),  have  been  developed.  Although  these  tools  are  useful  for  ensuring  similarity  among  groups  of  pts  involved  in  clinical  trials,  guiding  resource  allocation,  or  monitoring  quality  assurance,  their  relevance  to  individual  pts  is  less  clear.  These  scoring  systems  are  not  typically  used  to  guide  clinical  management.