Abstract

ALVAREZ ANDRADE, María Elena; TEJEDA HERNANDEZ, Olga O.; VALDIVIA ALVAREZ, Ileana  and  REYES PULLES, José M.. Evaluación cuantitativa de la disfunción múltiple de órganos por sepsis. Rev Cubana Pediatr [online]. 1998, vol.70, n.2, pp.67-72. ISSN 0034-7531.

A prospective study of 39 patients admitted at the Intensive Care Unit of the "Angel Arturo Aballí" Pediatric Teaching Hospital with the diagnosis of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome due to sepsis, was conducted during 16 months. A quantitative evaluation of every patients is made according to the alterations leading to organ dysfunction and thus tan individual scoring is obtained. The measure of central or mean trend corresponding to 11 points is applied to all patients´scoring. Results: 85 % of the dead patients obtained a scoring over 11 (p<0.01), mortality was higher among patients with 5 or more organs effects (p<0.01), and this group 90 % were above the mean score (p<0.01). Mortality amounts to 92.8 % in those patients with failure that are able to evolve up to 3 days and have more than 11 points (p<0.01).

Keywords : MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE [mortality]; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE [etiology]; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; PEDIATRIC; SEPSIS [complications].

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